# Delete Orphan Pods

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Check-out the given walk-through to understand how Delete Orphan Pods option works.
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Deleting Orphan Pods
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Orphan pods are those pods that do not belong to any pipeline. Once the pipeline is deactivated in some rare scenarios the pods doesn't get killed automatically. To avoid that, we have given an option to delete these pods. This page lists out all the pods that don't belong to any pipeline.