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alias: user-guide-terminate-data-collection-instance
description: "Terminate a data collection instance, ensuring it’s in the active state"
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# Terminate Data Collection Instance

:lock: DataCollectionInstance.**Terminate**

## Overview

This operation is used to Terminate a **Data Collection Instance**.

## Setup

No specific setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

## Preconditions

* The **Data Collection Instance** exists in the system and is in Active state.

## Sequence of Steps

Use the following steps to terminate an active **Data Collection Instance**.

### Step 1: Open an active Data Collection Instance

1. Open a **Data Collection**.
2. In the **Data Collection** page, select Instance from the right side menu.
3. In the **Data Collection Instances** table, select the name of the **Data Collection Instance** that you want to terminate.

### Step 2: General Data

1. In the top ribbon, select **More**.
2. Select **Terminate** from the dropdown menu.
3. In the **Terminate Data Collection Instance** wizard, select **Terminate**.

	!!! warning
		All generic/smart table rows that reference the current **Data Collection Instance** will be removed and will not be recovered if the object is unterminated at a later point.

For more information, see [Terminate and Unterminate](../../../general/terminate_and_unterminate.md).

![Screenshot showing a button labeled "Terminate" with a related data removal warning.](../images/terminate_data_collection_instance.png)