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# Emergency Stop

In case a running experiment causes unforeseen severe failures, every authenticated user can stop any running experiment by clicking the emergency stop button. You can find it under 'Current Activities' on the left.

![Emergency Stop](https://853194531-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FZLJS2c8EXBcu8PiwteIJ%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-986ae24a5e5f04b7133da0c5176cb8ab3dd1fc2f%2Femergency-stop.png?alt=media)

After that, all running experiments are stopped and, in addition, starting new experiments is prevented (via the UI as well as the API).