---
description: Forces running containers to stop.
keywords:
- fig, composition, compose, docker, orchestration, cli,  kill
menu:
  main:
    identifier: kill.compose
    parent: smn_compose_cli
title: kill
---

# kill

```
Usage: kill [options] [SERVICE...]

Options:
-s SIGNAL         SIGNAL to send to the container. Default signal is SIGKILL.
```

Forces running containers to stop by sending a `SIGKILL` signal. Optionally the
signal can be passed, for example:

    $ docker-compose kill -s SIGINT