Learn how to deactivate and reactivate agent and MCP collections in Akto.
Managing your agent and MCP collections effectively helps ensure optimal performance and control within Akto. Below is a step-by-step guide on how to deactivate and reactivate collections.
Deactivating a collection halts data ingestion, monitoring, and AI Red Teaming for that specific collection.
Navigate to Collections in the sidebar under Agentic Discovery
Select the checkbox next to the collection you wish to deactivate
Click on Deactivate collection at the bottom panel
Confirm the action in the pop-up dialog
Once a collection is deactivated, all associated agent components and MCP endpoints will be removed after 1 hour.
Consider deactivating a collection when:
The agent or MCP server is being decommissioned
You want to temporarily stop monitoring specific components
The collection contains test or development agents no longer in use
You need to reduce noise from inactive systems
To resume ingestion, monitoring, and AI Red Teaming, you can reactivate a previously deactivated collection.
Go to the Deactivated tab in the Collections view under Agentic Discovery
Select the collection(s) you want to reactivate
Click Reactivate collection from the bottom panel
Confirm the action in the pop-up dialog
Once reactivated:
Agent component discovery will resume
Traffic analysis will restart
AI Red Teaming will be enabled again
Historical data (if retained) will become accessible
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