# Pause and resume

Pause is for a Service you expect to use again but do not want running right now. Tokay stops the process while keeping its code, configuration, secrets, deployment history, and data ready for the next time you need it.

## Pausing changes the runtime, not the setup

A paused Service stops doing work immediately. A web app stops serving requests, a scheduled job stops firing, and a background worker stops processing.

Tokay shows a paused Service in gray because the stop was intentional. It does not appear as an incident or trigger a failure alert. The Project's databases keep running, sibling Services keep using them, and the Service's persistent data stays in place.

## Resume returns to the last working version

Resume starts the version that was running before the pause. A web app passes its normal health checks before Tokay sends traffic to it again.

You do not need to reconfigure or redeploy the Service unless you want to change it.

## Pause and delete solve different problems

Pause means the Service should stop for now. Delete means you are finished with it.

Deleted Services go to the trash and can be restored for 30 days. See [Deleting and restoring](deleting-and-restoring.md) for what deletion stops immediately and what Tokay keeps for recovery.