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# Uninstall

Since you may wish to have access to your data after spinning down your cluster, Cortex's bucket, stackdriver logs, and Prometheus volume are not automatically deleted when running `cortex cluster-gcp down`.

```bash
cortex cluster-gcp down
```

The `cortex cluster-gcp down` command doesn't wait for the cluster to spin down. You can ensure that the cluster has spun down by checking the GKE console.

## Keep Cortex Volumes

The volumes used by Cortex's Prometheus and Grafana instances are deleted by default on a cluster down operation. If you want to keep the metrics and dashboards volumes for any reason, you can pass the `--keep-volumes` flag to the `cortex cluster-gcp down` command.