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page_title: "Commands: Force Leave"
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sidebar_current: "docs-commands-forceleave"
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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. Note that if the member is still actually alive, it will
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eventually rejoin the cluster. The true purpose of this method is to force
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remove "failed" nodes.
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Consul periodically tries to reconnect to "failed" nodes in case it is a
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network partition. After some configured amount of time (by default 24 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 "left" nodes more
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quickly.
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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 be removed from the Raft quorum.
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## Usage
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Usage: `consul force-leave [options] node`
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The following command-line options are available for this command.
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Every option is optional:
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* `-rpc-addr` - Address to the RPC server of the agent you want to contact
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to send this command. If this isn't specified, the command will contact
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"127.0.0.1:8400" which is the default RPC address of a Consul agent.
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