couchdb - Hanging replications on Cloudant -

in last months, we've been charged lot of http requests not expecting on cloudant. looking @ couchdb console locally, found out each continuous replication request issued every 5 seconds or so.

i have stopped continuous replications find in futon , did same every cloudant accounts have. looking @ cloudant's dashboard, have seen reduction of requests (many thousands), did not went down reasonable level. there must continuous replications left, cannot find them.

how can find , stop remaining replications?

to identify continuous replications may hidden user, best way query curl command, invoke _active_tasks, , apply jq filter display tasks of type "replication".

that say, in command line, run command of following form:

curl 'https://username:password@username.cloudant.com/databasename/_active_tasks | jq 'map(select(.type == "replication"))' 

the same methodology can applied retrieve other active tasks (view_compaction, database_compaction, etc.)

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that said, in general, cloudant-based replication smoother when using _replicator database. so:

1) initial one-time task, create database:

 https://username.cloudant.com/_replicator  

2) then, create document every replication. if have "continuous":true in doc treated continuous.

3) then, cancel replication delete document.

all of above commands (e.g. creating , deleting documents) documented on cloudant's website throughout stack overflow, please refer there further details.

finally, imperative add usr_ctx field replication gets triggered , run within user context. critical shows when query _active_tasks, otherwise it'll run anonymously , show in _active_tasks if queried admin. precisely happened in case of original poster.