---
title: "Disable the Privilege Monitoring Engine"
method: POST
path: "/api/entity_analytics/monitoring/engine/disable"
tags: ["Security Entity Analytics API"]
---

# Disable the Privilege Monitoring Engine

`POST /api/entity_analytics/monitoring/engine/disable`

**Spaces method and path for this operation:**

<div><span class="operation-verb post">post</span>&nbsp;<span class="operation-path">/s/{space_id}/api/entity_analytics/monitoring/engine/disable</span></div>

Refer to [Spaces](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/manage-spaces) for more information.

Disables the Privilege Monitoring Engine, stopping all monitoring activity without removing data.

## Response `200`

Successful response

- SecurityEntityAnalyticsAPIMonitoringEngineDescriptor
  - `error` object
    - `message` string — Error message typically only present if the engine is in error state
  - `status` 'started' | 'error' | 'disabled' | 'not_installed', required — The status of the Privilege Monitoring Engine

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