# Pausing groups

BullMQ Pro supports pausing groups globally. A group is paused when no workers will pick up any jobs that belongs to the paused group. When you pause a group, the workers that are currently busy processing a job from that group, will continue working on that job until it completes (or failed), and then will just keep idling until the group has been resumed.

Pausing a group is performed by calling the `pauseGroup` method on a [`Queue`](https://api.bullmq.pro/classes/v7.QueuePro.html#pausegroup) instance:

```typescript
await myQueue.pauseGroup('groupId');
```

{% hint style="info" %}
Even if the `groupId` does not exist at that time, the `groupId` will be added in our paused list as a group could be ephemeral
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="warning" %}
`pauseGroup` will return `false` if the group is already paused.
{% endhint %}

Resuming a group is performed by calling the `resumeGroup` method on a [`Queue`](https://api.bullmq.pro/classes/v7.QueuePro.html#resumegroup) instance:

```typescript
await myQueue.resumeGroup('groupId');
```

{% hint style="warning" %}
`resumeGroup` will return `false` if the group does not exist or when the group is already resumed.
{% endhint %}

## Read more:

* 💡 [Pause Group API Reference](https://api.bullmq.pro/classes/v7.QueuePro.html#pausegroup)
* 💡 [Resume Group API Reference](https://api.bullmq.pro/classes/v7.QueuePro.html#resumegroup)


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