# Disable monitoring and bandwidth

**URL:** <https://community.dynatrace.com/t/disable-monitoring-and-bandwidth/15337>\
**Category:** Open Q&A\
**Tags:** hosts-classic, settings\
**Created:** [September 4, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/disable-monitoring-and-bandwidth/15337 "2018-09-04T14:48:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![fchaillot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@fchaillot](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/fchaillot)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/disable-monitoring-and-bandwidth/15337/1 "2018-09-04T14:48:42Z")

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Hi to all

if I disable monitoring on a host (settings option in the dynatrace admin console), does the agent continue to consume the outgoing bandwidth when talking with the dynatrace saas environment or is it silent?

Thanks a lot

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**Author:** ![franz\_soengen](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/dynatrace/user_avatar/community.dynatrace.com/franz_soengen/32/21806_2.png) [@franz\_soengen](https://community.dynatrace.com/u/franz_soengen)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.dynatrace.com/t/disable-monitoring-and-bandwidth/15337/2 "2018-09-04T15:39:20Z")

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Hi Frédéric,

as you are able to re-enable monitoring from the console and OneAgent doesn’t open any listening ports on the monitored machine I would assume that it polls the server periodically to check if there has been a change of configuration. So you would still have some traffic.

If you don’t want that you can stop the OneAgent Service from the command line: [https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/deploy-dyna…](https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/deploy-dynatrace/oneagent/setup-tips/how-can-i-stop-restart-oneagent/). You would then have to use the command line again if you want to continue monitoring.

best regards  
Franz