# removing stale node

**URL:** <https://community.netdata.cloud/t/removing-stale-node/7595>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 26, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/removing-stale-node/7595 "2025-05-26T15:36:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bloodyskullz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/bloodyskullz/32/4534_2.png) [@Bloodyskullz](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/Bloodyskullz)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/removing-stale-node/7595/1 "2025-05-26T15:36:57Z")

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Hi, so my cloud instance seems to have a stale node that I can’t delete. Trash icon is greyed out, i looked online and I found this:

> [@Impossible to delete Stale node?](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/impossible-to-delete-stale-node/5537):
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> I read the following [Can't delete stale nodes](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/cant-delete-stale-nodes/3909)[ability to delete unseen, stale or live nodes (other than Offline) #690](https://github.com/netdata/netdata-cloud/issues/690) But still scratching my head. How can I delete the stale node circled below? The trash can says “Delete is disabled” when I hover over it

but that didn’t help. I don’t have my nodes reporting to a parent node and I don’t have a child node. I am just reporting directly to the cloud instance.

What do I do?

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**Author:** ![ilyam8](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.netdata.cloud/ilyam8/32/134_2.png) [@ilyam8](https://community.netdata.cloud/u/ilyam8)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://community.netdata.cloud/t/removing-stale-node/7595/2 "2025-05-27T07:40:08Z")

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Hi.

**Stale Node** : A Child node that is no longer streaming data to its Parent, though the Parent still retains the Child’s historical data.

To investigate: Click the node’s info to view its Parent instance. If the node appears as its own Parent, this indicates the node’s GUID has changed (either through deletion or a bug).

 ![Screenshot 2025-05-27 at 10.39.55](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/netdata2/original/2X/3/3266ac9d08f9572b8432c218e4f56524851895e2.png)

**Resolution** : The removal procedure is the same regardless of the cause.