You can disable a datapoint in an instance to effectively inactive and stop it from extracting and storing data from the received payloads. You can disable a datapoint by editing it.
All Datapoint operations require necessary permissions. Refer User Profiles document for more details.
To disable a datapoint,
Access the End Application.
Select Devices > Devices in the left pane.You can select Assets to disable a datapoint template in an asset or Location to disable a datapoint template in a location.
Click the name of the instance which has the datapoint. For this illustration, the device: My RPi is considered.
Click Actions > Datapoint configuration. This opens the datapoint list view.
Check the box next to the datapoint you want to edit and click Edit. For this illustration, the datapoint: Temperature is selected.
Change the Status to OFF.
Click Update.
The datapoint will now be disabled for that particular instance.