# Pausing Telemetry
By default, telemetry is collected from all sources in a configuration and sent to all supported destinations in that configuration. However, there may be times when you don't want to collect from a particular source or export to a destination. To support those situations, Bindplane allows you to "Pause" sources and destinations. When a source is paused, collectors won't try to collect from it. When a destination is paused, no collected telemetry will be sent to it.
An important detail to remember is that pausing or resuming a source or destination in a configuration will update all collectors using that configuration to pause/resume that source/destination.
## Pausing a Source
Sources can be paused from the page of either a collector or its configuration. To pause a source, click on the card for the source you want to pause in the topology view. The current status will be displayed in the bottom left corner, indicating whether it is `Running` or `Paused`. If running, clicking the `Pause` button will pause collection of that source.
After clicking "Pause", the topology reflects that the Active Directory source has been paused.
### Pausing a Destination
Destinations can be paused like sources, by clicking on the appropriate card in the topology view of a configuration. Its current status will be shown in the bottom left corner, either `Running` or `Paused`. If running, clicking the `Pause` button will pause the sending of telemetry to that destination. If the only destination in a configuration is paused, the collector will also pause collecting all sources as the telemetry has nowhere to go.
A major difference between pausing sources and destinations is that while pausing a source only affects that configuration, pausing a destination will pause it in all configurations including it. For example, imagine a single Google Cloud Monitoring destination, `example-gcp-project`, is being used in several configurations to send telemetry to that GCP project. If you need to stop all telemetry from being sent, pausing the `example-gcp-project` destination in one configuration will pause it in all other configurations.
After clicking "Pause", the topology reflects that the `Gcloud-qa` destination has been paused.
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