Pause continuous monitoring for an identity

Pauses continuous AML monitoring on this person. Monitoring is a person-level state — pause/resume operates on the identity, not on individual screening checks. Sets `monitoring_paused_reason='manual'` and calls the underlying provider's disable_monitoring on the stored search ID. Manual pauses are preserved across archive/restore cycles — restoring an archived identity does NOT re-enable monitoring that was manually paused beforehand. To bulk-disable monitoring across many identities, archive them instead. The archive cascade pauses monitoring with `reason='archived'` so a later restore re-enables it automatically.

Pauses continuous AML monitoring on this person. Monitoring is a person-level state — pause/resume operates on the identity, not on individual screening checks. Sets monitoring_paused_reason='manual' and calls the underlying provider’s disable_monitoring on the stored search ID. Manual pauses are preserved across archive/restore cycles — restoring an archived identity does NOT re-enable monitoring that was manually paused beforehand.

To bulk-disable monitoring across many identities, archive them instead. The archive cascade pauses monitoring with reason='archived' so a later restore re-enables it automatically.

Authentication

X-API-Keystring

Organization API key. Keys are prefixed with vk_live_ (production) or vk_sandbox_ (sandbox).

Path parameters

identity_idstringRequired

Identity ID (idn_*) or external reference.

Response

Monitoring paused.

idstring

monitoring_enabledboolean

Errors

401

Unauthorized Error

404

Not Found Error

422

Unprocessable Entity Error

To bulk-disable monitoring across many identities, archive them instead. The archive cascade pauses monitoring with reason='archived' so a later restore re-enables it automatically.

Organization API key. Keys are prefixed with vk_live_ (production) or vk_sandbox_ (sandbox).

Identity ID (idn_*) or external reference.

API version date string (e.g. 2026-02-01). If omitted, the version pinned to your API key is used.

Unique key for idempotent requests. Cached for 24 hours. Sending the same key with different parameters returns 422.

Pause continuous monitoring for an identity

Authentication

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Response

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Authentication

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$	curl -X POST https://devapi.withverifa.com/api/v1/identities/identity_id/pause-monitoring \
>	-H "X-API-Key: <apiKey>"

1	{
2	"id": "idn_9f8b7c6d5e4a3b2c1d0e",
3	"monitoring_enabled": false
4	}