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Suspending a deployment

Suspending a Cloudera Data Flow deployment terminates cloud resources belonging to the Apache NiFi cluster, while maintaining flow persistence.

Suspending a Cloudera Data Flow deployment results in the following:

  • The NiFi flow stops processing data and all underlying cloud resources are terminated. Any unprocessed data in the flow is stored in memory and its processing resumes when you resume the deployment.

  • Flow persistence is maintained while a deployment is suspended.
  • You cannot modify deployment configuration while the deployment is suspended.
  • Suspended deployments are not billable, resulting in reduced costs.
You must have deployed a flow definition in Cloudera Data Flow.
  1. Open Cloudera Data Flow by clicking the Data Flow tile in the Cloudera sidebar.
  2. Click Deployments from the left navigation pane.
    The Deployments page is displayed, by default the Deployments tab is active.


  3. Select a deployment to expand the Deployment & Flows pane where you can view deployment details, KPIs, system metrics, alerts, and event history information. This is the view where you can also access flows on that specific deployment.
  4. In Deployment & Flows, click Actions > Manage Deployment.
    You are redirected to the Deployment Manager page.
  5. Click Actions on the Manage Deployment page.
  6. Select Suspend Deployment.
    The Suspend [Deployment Name] modal appears.
  7. Click Suspend Deployment to suspend the Cloudera Data Flow deployment.