## Stopping a container

### Overview

There are times when you might want to stop then restart a container; for example, to recycle a hung container, force a container to reprovision itself, or to reclaim CPU cycles.

### Procedure

To stop a container:

1. If necessary, in Fabric Explorer, expand the tree of the fabric whose container you want to stop.

2. Select the container and right-click it to open the context menu.

3. Click Stop Container.

   | Note
   To check whether the developer tools stopped the container, click Containers in Fabric Explorer, and open the Properties view. You should see something similar to Figure 20, where `myRoute` was stopped successfully.

   Figure 20. Container status in Properties view

   For information on the meaning of the status indicators that might appear in the Status column of the Properties view, see Table 1, “Container startup status”.

### Related topics

Starting a container
Deleting a container