Consul Info

Command: consul info

The info command provides various debugging information that can be useful to operators. Depending on if the agent is a client or server, information about different sub-systems will be returned.

There are currently the top-level keys for:

• agent: Provides information about the agent
• consul: Information about the consul library (client or server)
• raft: Provides info about the Raft consensus library
• serf_lan: Provides info about the LAN gossip pool
• serf_wan: Provides info about the WAN gossip pool

Here is an example output:

agent:
    check_monitors = 0
    check_ttls = 0
    checks = 0
    services = 0
consul:
    bootstrap = true
    known_datacenters = 1
    leader = true
    server = true
raft:
    applied_index = 45832
    commit_index = 45832
    fsm_pending = 0
    last_log_index = 45832
    last_log_term = 4
    last_snapshot_index = 45713
    last_snapshot_term = 1
    num_peers = 2
    state = Leader
    term = 4
serf_lan:
    event_queue = 0
    event_time = 2
    failed = 0
    intent_queue = 0
    left = 0
    member_time = 7
    members = 3
    query_queue = 0
    query_time = 1
serf_wan:
    event_queue = 0
    event_time = 1
    failed = 0
    intent_queue = 0
    left = 0
    member_time = 1
    members = 1
    query_queue = 0
    query_time = 1

Usage

Usage: consul info

API Options

• -ca-file=<value> - Path to a CA file to use for TLS when communicating with Consul. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_CACERT environment variable.

• -ca-path=<value> - Path to a directory of CA certificates to use for TLS when communicating with Consul. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_CAPATH environment variable.

• -client-cert=<value> - Path to a client cert file to use for TLS when verify_incoming is enabled. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_CLIENT_CERT environment variable.

• -client-key=<value> - Path to a client key file to use for TLS when verify_incoming is enabled. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_CLIENT_KEY environment variable.

• -http-addr=<addr> - Address of the Consul agent with the port. This can be an IP address or DNS address, but it must include the port. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_HTTP_ADDR environment variable. In Consul 0.8 and later, the default value is http://127.0.0.1:8500, and https can optionally be used instead. The scheme can also be set to HTTPS by setting the environment variable CONSUL_HTTP_SSL=true. This may be a unix domain socket using unix:///path/to/socket if the agent is configured to listen that way.

• -tls-server-name=<value> - The server name to use as the SNI host when connecting via TLS. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_TLS_SERVER_NAME environment variable.

• -token=<value> - ACL token to use in the request. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_HTTP_TOKEN environment variable. If unspecified, the query will default to the token of the Consul agent at the HTTP address.

• -token-file=<value> - File containing the ACL token to use in the request instead of one specified via the -token argument or CONSUL_HTTP_TOKEN environment variable. This can also be specified via the CONSUL_HTTP_TOKEN_FILE environment variable.