Hibernate a MarkLogic cluster
- Last Updated: April 14, 2026
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- MarkLogic Server
- Version 12.0
- Documentation
At any time, you can hibernate the cluster by using the Update Stack feature to reapply the Cloud Formation template to your stack and setting the NodesPerZone value to 0. You must later restart the cluster by resetting the NodesPerZone value to the previously set value. For example, assume the NodesPerZone value is 3. Set the value to 0 to hibernate the cluster, and reset the value back to 3 to restart the cluster.
Warning:
You must revert all forest replicas back to their original primary hosts. To do this, restart the server. For details, see Restarting the Server in Administrate MarkLogic Server.
Warning:
Hibernating a MarkLogic cluster deletes all nodes and related root volumes in your cluster. Restarting a hibernated MarkLogic cluster recreates nodes and related root volumes. In addition, data volumes are preserved and reattached to nodes.
Warning:
Do not manually stop your MarkLogic instances from the EC2 dashboard, as each AutoScaling Group will detect that they have stopped and will automatically recreate them.