Clean up Kurtosis enclaves and artifacts. Remove stopped enclaves, running enclaves with -a flag, and stopped engine containers. Use when you need to free up resources or start fresh.
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---
name: clean
description: Clean up Kurtosis enclaves and artifacts. Remove stopped enclaves, running enclaves with -a flag, and stopped engine containers. Use when you need to free up resources or start fresh.
compatibility: Requires kurtosis CLI with a running engine.
metadata:
author: ethpandaops
version: "1.0"
---
# Clean
Remove Kurtosis enclaves and leftover artifacts.
## Basic clean
Removes only **stopped** enclaves and stopped engine containers:
```bash
kurtosis clean
```
## Clean everything
Removes **all** enclaves (including running ones):
```bash
kurtosis clean -a
```
## Selective removal
To remove a specific enclave without touching others:
```bash
# Stop an enclave
kurtosis enclave stop <enclave-name>
# Remove a specific enclave
kurtosis enclave rm <enclave-name>
```
## When clean hangs
On Kubernetes, `kurtosis clean -a` can hang if the logs collector cleanup tries to create pods on tainted/unhealthy nodes. See the `k8s-clean-cluster` skill for manual cleanup steps.
On Docker, if clean hangs:
```bash
# Kill the hanging process
pkill -f "kurtosis clean"
# Manually remove containers
docker ps -a | grep kurtosis | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -r docker rm -f
# Remove networks
docker network ls | grep kurtosis | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -r docker network rm
# Restart engine
kurtosis engine start
```
