# How to kill actor from CLI or dashboard?

**URL:** <https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-kill-actor-from-cli-or-dashboard/11952>\
**Category:** Ray Core\
**Created:** [August 28, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-kill-actor-from-cli-or-dashboard/11952 "2023-08-28T02:16:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![raycharles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@raycharles](https://discuss.ray.io/u/raycharles)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-kill-actor-from-cli-or-dashboard/11952/1 "2023-08-28T02:16:47Z")

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**How severe does this issue affect your experience of using Ray?**

- None: Just asking a question out of curiosity

Is there a way to kill an actor from the CLI or dashboard? I know we can use ray.kill(handle) from within a driver script or from within the job submitted to a cluster but what about killing a misbehaving actor if the job does not have the kill logic? Is there a possibility to send a signal to an actor from the CLI or dashboard, like a kill button on dashboard or from CLI like: ray kill _actor\_id_?

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**Author:** ![rickyyx](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/rickyyx/32/2671_2.png) [@rickyyx](https://discuss.ray.io/u/rickyyx)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 4:40pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-kill-actor-from-cli-or-dashboard/11952/2 "2023-08-28T16:40:47Z")

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Hey @raycharles ,This has been one of the feature requests we received before!

Please open an issue on [ray](https://github.com/ray-project/ray) with your specific usecases and people with similar thoughts could upvote it, and we will be able to track the progress on it.

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**Author:** ![Jules\_Damji](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/jules_damji/32/4058_2.png) [@Jules\_Damji](https://discuss.ray.io/u/Jules_Damji)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 8:39pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-kill-actor-from-cli-or-dashboard/11952/3 "2023-08-29T20:39:43Z")

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We will consider this resolved expecting you to file an issue. Once you have done, include the link to the issue here. For now we’ll consider this resolved.

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**Author:** ![raycharles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@raycharles](https://discuss.ray.io/u/raycharles)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2023, 9:08pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-kill-actor-from-cli-or-dashboard/11952/4 "2023-09-03T21:08:59Z")

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I have created a github issue for this topic: [CLI: kill actor via ray kill actors \*actor\_id\* or via dashboard · Issue #39240 · ray-project/ray · GitHub](https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues/39240)

@rickyyx @Jules_Damji