---
title: Terminate replication
description: You can unfollow a leader index to terminate replication and convert the follower index to a standard index. Access Cross-Cluster Replication and choose...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/deploy-manage/tools/cross-cluster-replication/ccr-terminate-replication
products:
  - Elasticsearch
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted: Generally available
  - Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes: Generally available
  - Elastic Cloud Enterprise: Generally available
  - Self-managed Elastic deployments: Generally available
---

# Terminate replication
You can unfollow a leader index to terminate replication and convert the follower index to a standard index.
[Access Cross-Cluster Replication](/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/deploy-manage/tools/cross-cluster-replication/manage-cross-cluster-replication#ccr-access-ccr) and choose the **Follower indices** tab.
Select the follower index and pause replication. When the follower index status changes to Paused, reselect the follower index and choose to unfollow the leader index.
The follower index will be converted to a standard index and will no longer display on the Cross-Cluster Replication page.
You can then choose **Index Management**, select the follower index from the previous steps, and close the follower index.
<dropdown title="Use the API">
  You can terminate replication with the [unfollow API](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/operation/operation-ccr-unfollow). This API converts a follower index to a standard (non-follower) index.
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