# Best Way to Delete Canisters (Plus get back as much cycles possible)

**URL:** <https://forum.dfinity.org/t/best-way-to-delete-canisters-plus-get-back-as-much-cycles-possible/44010>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Tags:** Functional-Programming, Discussing\
**Created:** [April 17, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/best-way-to-delete-canisters-plus-get-back-as-much-cycles-possible/44010 "2025-04-17T14:25:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnNixon6972](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/forum.dfinity.org/johnnixon6972/32/24620_2.png) [@JohnNixon6972](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/JohnNixon6972)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/best-way-to-delete-canisters-plus-get-back-as-much-cycles-possible/44010/4 "2025-04-17T17:09:40Z")

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As promised here is our implementation of Canister Management

> [@Canisters Management](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/canisters-management/44039):
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> Ever struggled/not remembering the right commands to manage canisters. I know it gets well tricky even for us in Waterway Labs. We at Waterway Labs have many canisters across all our projects like static canisters which we create (fronted, backend) and dynamic canisters (eg. profile canisters) which our backend’s create in the run. So at times it gets hard for us to keep a track of all our canisters. And thats where we decided to create a canister management system straight into our WWL\_backen…

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