Safely Stop Indexes

When stopping a production index, you want to make sure to process all user queries beforehand.

You can force a "not alive" status for the index, so the load balancer can redirect queries to an available index. Meanwhile, the index processes any queries submitted before you forced the status to "not alive."

Once the index has processed the remaining queries, you can safely stop the index.

This task shows you how to:

• Specify the Full Instance to "Not Alive"
• Specify the Mashup UI to "Not Alive"
• Specify the Search API to “Not Alive”