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/sys/leader

The /sys/leader endpoint is used to check the high availability status and details of the current leader node of OpenBao.

Read leader status​

MethodPath
GET/sys/leader

Sample request​

$ curl \
    http://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/sys/leader

Sample responses​

With HA enabled:

{
  "ha_enabled": true,
  "is_self": false,
  "leader_address": "https://127.0.0.1:8200/",
  "leader_cluster_address": "https://127.0.0.1:8201/",
  "active_time": "2009-11-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC",
}

With HA enabled and running raft:

{
  "ha_enabled": true,
  "is_self": false,
  "leader_address": "https://127.0.0.1:8200/",
  "leader_cluster_address": "https://127.0.0.1:8201/",
  "active_time": "2009-11-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC",
  "raft_committed_index": 0,
  "raft_applied_index": 0,
}

With HA disabled:

{
  "ha_enabled": false
}