HashiCorp Vault

HashiCorp Vault Leader API

HA leader status

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GET /sys/leader HashiCorp Vault Read leader status #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: HashiCorp Vault Vault Auth Methods AppRole Leader API
  description: APIs for authentication methods in HashiCorp Vault including Token, AppRole, Kubernetes, LDAP, JWT/OIDC, GitHub, Userpass, and AWS auth methods. These endpoints handle user and machine authentication to obtain Vault tokens.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: HashiCorp Support
    email: support@hashicorp.com
    url: https://support.hashicorp.com/
  license:
    name: Business Source License 1.1
    url: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://vault.example.com/v1
  description: Vault Server
security:
- vaultToken: []
tags:
- name: Leader
  description: HA leader status
paths:
  /sys/leader:
    get:
      operationId: readLeaderStatus
      summary: HashiCorp Vault Read leader status
      description: Returns the high availability status and current leader instance of the Vault cluster.
      tags:
      - Leader
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Leader status returned
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/LeaderResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    LeaderResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        ha_enabled:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether high availability is enabled
        is_self:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether the responding node is the leader
        active_time:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: Time the leader became active
        leader_address:
          type: string
          description: Address of the leader node
        leader_cluster_address:
          type: string
          description: Cluster address of the leader node
        performance_standby:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether the node is a performance standby
        performance_standby_last_remote_wal:
          type: integer
          description: Last remote WAL on performance standby
  securitySchemes:
    vaultToken:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Vault-Token
      description: Vault authentication token
externalDocs:
  description: Vault Auth Methods API Documentation
  url: https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/api-docs/auth