---
title: stack es ccr pause-follow cli command
description: Pause a follower. Behaviour flags: --dry-run — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action 
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/cli/pull/537/cli/stack/es/ccr/pause-follow
---

# stack es ccr pause-follow cli command
<cli-modifiers>
</cli-modifiers>

```bash
elastic stack es ccr pause-follow --index <index> [options]
```

Pause a follower.
**Behaviour flags:**
`--dry-run` — validate all inputs and exit without performing any action

## Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--index string required">
    The name of the follower index.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--master-timeout string">
    The period to wait for a connection to the master node.
    If the master node is not available before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.
    It can also be set to `-1` to indicate that the request should never timeout.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--[no-]error-trace">
    When set to `true` Elasticsearch will include the full stack trace of errors
    when they occur.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--filter-path string">
    Comma-separated list of filters in dot notation which reduce the response
    returned by Elasticsearch.
    **Repeatable:** pass `--filter-path` multiple times to supply more than one value
  </definition>
  <definition term="--[no-]human">
    When set to `true` will return statistics in a format suitable for humans.
    For example `"exists_time": "1h"` for humans and
    `"exists_time_in_millis": 3600000` for computers. When disabled the human
    readable values will be omitted. This makes sense for responses being consumed
    only by machines.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--[no-]pretty">
    If set to `true` the returned JSON will be "pretty-formatted". Only use
    this option for debugging only.
  </definition>
  <definition term="--input-file string">
    path to a JSON file to use as command input
  </definition>
  <definition term="--[no-]dry-run">
    validate all inputs and exit without performing any action (preview changes without applying them)
  </definition>
</definitions>


## Global Options

<definitions>
  <definition term="--[no-]json">
    output as JSON
  </definition>
</definitions>