[[shutdown]]
= Shutdown (`shutdown`)

The `shutdown` endpoint is used to shut down the application.



[[shutdown-shutting-down]]
== Shutting Down the Application

To shut down the application, make a `POST` request to `/actuator/shutdown`, as shown in the following curl-based example:

include::{snippets}shutdown/curl-request.adoc[]

A response similar to the following is produced:

include::{snippets}shutdown/http-response.adoc[]



[[shutdown-shutting-down-response-structure]]
=== Response Structure

The response contains details of the result of the shutdown request.
The following table describes the structure of the response:

[cols="3,1,3"]
include::{snippets}shutdown/response-fields.adoc[]
