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layout: commands
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page_title: 'Commands: Force Leave'
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description: >-
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The `force-leave` command forces a member of a Consul cluster to enter the
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left state. If the member is still actually alive, it will eventually rejoin
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the cluster. The true purpose of this method is to force remove failed nodes.
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---
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# Consul Force Leave
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Command: `consul force-leave`
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The `force-leave` command forces a member of a Consul cluster to enter the
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"left" state. The purpose of this method is to force-remove a node that has failed or
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was shutdown without a [graceful leave](/commands/leave).
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Consul periodically tries to reconnect to "failed" nodes in case failure was due
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to a network partition. After some configured amount of time (by default 72 hours),
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Consul will reap "failed" nodes and stop trying to reconnect. The `force-leave`
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command can be used to transition the "failed" nodes to a "left" state more
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quickly, as reported by [`consul members`](/commands/members).
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This can be particularly useful for a node that was running as a server,
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as it will eventually be removed from the Raft configuration by the leader.
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~> Note that for `force-leave` to take full effect the target node's agent must have
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shutdown permanently. If the agent is alive and reachable then it will not be removed
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from the datacenter's member list nor from the raft configuration. Additionally,
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if the agent returns after transitioning to the "left" state, but before it is reaped
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from the member list, then it will rejoin the cluster.
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## Usage
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Usage: `consul force-leave [options] node`
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#### API Options
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@include 'http_api_options_client.mdx'
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## Examples
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Remove a node named `ec2-001-staging` from the local agent's datacenter:
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```
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consul force-leave ec2-001-staging
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```
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When run on a server that is part of a
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[WAN gossip pool](https://learn.hashicorp.com/consul/security-networking/datacenters),
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`force-leave` can remove failed servers in other datacenters from the WAN pool.
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The identifying node-name in a WAN pool is `[node-name].[datacenter]`.
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Therefore, to remove a failed server node named `server1` from
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datacenter `us-east1`, run:
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```
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consul force-leave server1.us-east1
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```
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#### Command Options
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- `-prune` - Removes failed or left agent from the list of
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members entirely
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