How can I stop a running canister smart contract? – DFINITY

You can stop canisters that are currently running by running the dfx canister stop command:

dfx canister stop --all

This command displays output similar to the following:

Stopping code for canister status_check, with canister_id 75hes-oqbaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-q
Stopping code for canister status_check_assets, with canister_id cxeji-wacaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaa-q

To learn more about how to stop a running canister, please check out the “stop status” content from the Developer Center.

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