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Network monitor recording
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You can pause and resume the monitoring of network traffic using the pause button.

Pausing and resume network traffic recording
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The Network Monitor has a button that pauses and resumes recording of the current page's network traffic. This is useful in situations where, for example, you are trying to get a stable view of a page for debugging purposes, but under normal circumstances the view keeps evolving due to persistent network requests. The pause button allows you to look at a certain snapshot.

The button can be found at the far left of the main Network Monitor toolbar, and looks like a typical pause button — |image1|.

.. |image1| image:: pause-icon.png
  :width: 20

You can see it here in context:

.. image:: play-pause-network-traffic.png
  :class: border

Once pressed, the button changes to a play icon, and you can toggle network traffic recording back on by pressing it again.

Network Monitor features
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The following articles cover different aspects of using the network monitor:

- :doc:`Toolbar <../toolbar/index>`
- :doc:`Network request list <../request_list/index>`
- :doc:`Network request details <../request_details/index>`
- :doc:`Network traffic recording <../recording/index/>`
- :doc:`Performance analysis <../performance_analysis/index>`
- :doc:`Throttling <../throttling/index>`
