Operate an existing ClickHouse Cloud ClickPipe via the API: start, stop, resync, rescale, edit settings, and delete it
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Documented steps
Authenticate with HTTP Basic auth (key ID as username, key secret as password) on every call.
Change lifecycle state: PATCH /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId}/clickpipes/{clickPipeId}/state with {"command": ...}. The enum is exactly 'start', 'stop', 'resync' - there is no separate 'pause' command; use 'stop' to pause ingestion and 'start' to resume.
'resync' applies to Postgres and MySQL pipes and swaps in freshly re-snapshotted tables. It is rejected for Kafka, Kinesis, object storage, BigQuery, and MongoDB pipes.
Rescale a streaming or object-storage pipe: PATCH .../clickpipes/{clickPipeId}/scaling with replicas, replicaCpuMillicores, and/or replicaMemoryGb. The older `concurrency` field is deprecated - prefer the CPU and memory fields.
Rescale database CDC pipes: GET /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId}/clickpipesCdcScaling to read current values, then PATCH the same path with replicaCpuMillicores and replicaMemoryGb. This scales infrastructure shared by ALL database ClickPipes on the service, not one pipe, and only exists once a database pipe has been provisioned.
Tune advanced settings: PUT /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId}/clickpipes/{clickPipeId}/settings with keys such as streaming_max_insert_wait_ms, object_storage_concurrency, object_storage_max_file_count, and clickhouse_max_threads. Because this is a PUT, read the current settings first and resend everything you want to keep.
Edit other fields (name, mutable source fields, destination, fieldMappings) with PATCH .../clickpipes/{clickPipeId}. For Kafka sources, brokers, topics, consumer group, format, offset, schema registry, and exactly-once semantics are effectively immutable after creation.
Delete with DELETE /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId}/clickpipes/{clickPipeId}. This stops ingestion immediately and is irreversible.
After any state, scaling, or settings change, GET the pipe to confirm the change took effect - CDC scaling in particular can take several minutes to propagate.
Docs: https://clickhouse.com/docs/integrations/clickpipes and https://clickhouse.com/docs/integrations/clickpipes/postgres/pause_and_resume
Known gotchas
'start' is only accepted from a stopped or failed state. Sending it while the pipe is running, provisioning, or modifying is rejected - read the current state first.
Pausing a Postgres or MySQL pipe stops ingestion but does NOT stop the source's replication slot or binlog from accumulating. A long pause can fill storage on the source database (see the pause_and_resume doc).
The two scaling endpoints are not interchangeable: /clickpipes/{id}/scaling is for streaming and object-storage pipes, /clickpipesCdcScaling is for database CDC pipes. Crossing them fails.
clickpipesCdcScaling changes affect every database ClickPipe on the service simultaneously, and its CPU and memory values must satisfy the spec's paired multiples - an arbitrary combination is rejected.
PUT /settings replaces the whole settings object. Omitting a previously set key silently reverts it to default.
Deleting a Postgres or MySQL pipe does not clean up the replication slot or publication on the source database - drop those separately or the source keeps retaining WAL.
Scripted stop-poll-start sequences across many pipes will hit the 10-requests-per-10-seconds key limit; add backoff.
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