# ShutdownNode

POST

/v2/shutdown

Special management endpoint to shutdown the node. Optionally provide a timeout parameter to indicate that the node should begin shutting down after a number of seconds.

## Authorizations

- **[api_key](https://dev.algorand.co/reference/rest-api/algod/#api_key)**

## Parameters

### Query Parameters

**timeout**

integer

0

## Responses

### 200

Select media type application/json

object