Stopping MiNiFi

You can stop the MiNiFi Java Agent process by using the control script or the system service.

From a terminal window, navigate to the MiNiFi installation directory.
Run the following command.
```
bin/minifi.sh stop
```
To stop the MiNiFi service, enter the following command.
```
sudo service minifi stop
```
note

Stopping the agent process shuts down the agent completely and stops it from sending heartbeats to Cloudera Edge Management. To stop data processing while keeping the agent online and connected, see Starting/stopping flows on MiNiFi agents.