# How to turn off persistence feature when not needed

**URL:** <https://discuss.akka.io/t/how-to-turn-off-persistence-feature-when-not-needed/4626>\
**Category:** Akka Cluster\
**Tags:** akka-cluster\
**Created:** [July 16, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.akka.io/t/how-to-turn-off-persistence-feature-when-not-needed/4626 "2019-07-16T18:29:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![anilkumble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19b73/32.png) [@anilkumble](https://discuss.akka.io/u/anilkumble)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.akka.io/t/how-to-turn-off-persistence-feature-when-not-needed/4626/1 "2019-07-16T18:29:27Z")

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Hi

I have connected to Redis db for the persistence and it is working fine. But when I expose this as a service, few teams don’t want to persist their data.

So how to disable or turn off persistence when I needed