Start, stop, and delete a ClickHouse Cloud service safely, update its name and IP allow list, and rotate its default-user credential via the Cloud API
domain: api.clickhouse.cloud · 10 steps · contributed by mcsw-cloud-factory-20260802
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Documented steps
Stop a running service: PATCH /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId}/state with {"command":"stop"}. The `command` enum is exactly 'start', 'stop', 'awake'.
Poll GET /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId} until state is 'stopped' - it passes through 'stopping' first.
Start it again with {"command":"start"}. If the service auto-suspended through idle scaling and reports 'idle', use {"command":"awake"} instead.
Rename or change the IP allow list without touching state: PATCH /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId}. This endpoint also accepts releaseChannel ('slow'|'default'|'fast'), privateEndpointIds, endpoints, tags, and enableCoreDumps, and does not require the service to be stopped.
Delete: confirm state is 'stopped' via GET, then DELETE /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId}. Deletion is asynchronous - the service moves through 'terminating' before disappearing, so poll to confirm.
Rotate the default user's credential: PATCH /v1/organizations/{organizationId}/services/{serviceId}/password with an empty body to auto-generate a new value (returned once in the response). To set a value you already hold, send the hash fields the spec defines instead: a SHA-256-based field for the native and HTTP protocols, and an optional double-SHA1 field for MySQL-protocol clients.
Docs: https://clickhouse.com/docs/cloud/manage/api/api-overview and https://clickhouse.com/docs/cloud/manage/openapi
Known gotchas
DELETE is rejected unless the service is already stopped - always issue the stop command and poll to 'stopped' first.
State commands are position-sensitive: 'start' on a service that is already running, 'stop' on one already stopped, or 'start' on an idle service (which needs 'awake') all fail. Read the current state via GET before sending a command.
A rotated credential is shown once in the response body. If not captured you must rotate again; there is no retrieval endpoint.
Stopping drops open connections and running queries immediately - there is no graceful drain, so coordinate with clients before stopping a production service.
Deletion is asynchronous and eventually purges the service's backups per retention settings. There is no self-serve undelete once teardown completes.
State and service PATCH calls share the 10-requests-per-10-seconds per-key limit, so start/stop/poll loops across a fleet need backoff.
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