## Suspending a routing context

### Overview

The developer tools enable you to suspend the operation of a routing context from Fuse JMX Navigator. Suspending a context gracefully shuts down all of the routes in the context, but keeps them loaded in memory so that they can easily be resumed.

If you want to kill all of the routes and free their resources, close the context. See Shutting down a routing context.

### Procedure

To suspend a routing context:

1. In the Fuse JMX Navigator tree, expand the project's Camel Contexts node, and select the routing context you want to suspend.

2. Right-click it to open the context menu, and then select Suspend Camel Context.

   | Note
   If Resume Camel Context appears on the context menu, the context is already suspended.

### Related topics

Shutting down a routing context
Resuming a routing context