---
title: "Stop Entity Store engines"
method: PUT
path: "/api/security/entity_store/stop"
tags: ["Security entity store"]
---

# Stop Entity Store engines

`PUT /api/security/entity_store/stop`

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

<div><span class="operation-verb put">put</span>&nbsp;<span class="operation-path">/s/{space_id}/api/security/entity_store/stop</span></div>

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

Stop running entity engines, pausing data processing for the specified entity types.<br/><br/>[Required authorization] Route required privileges: securitySolution.

## Headers

- `kbn-xsrf` string, required

## Request body

- object
  - `entityTypes` string[] — Entity types to stop. Defaults to all running types.

## Response `200`

Indicates a successful response.

---

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