Meta Rescue

Lowers the quorum the meta group needs, so peers can be removed when too many servers are permanently gone. This is unsafe and is only for disaster recovery.

Subject

$JS.API.META.RESCUE

Only works from the system account. This is a broadcast subject: every online server evaluates the request and replies on its own, so expect one response per server rather than a single reply.

Request

A request to the JetStream $JS.API.META.RESCUE API

quorum_neededintegerrequired

The number of servers that will now be required to form a quorum

Response

A response from the JetStream $JS.API.META.RESCUE API

One of the following:

Option 1 (object)

errorobjectrequired

Option 2 (object)

serverstringrequired

The server name of the responding server

server_idstringrequired

The server ID of the responding server

prev_quoruminteger

The effective quorum before the rescue was applied

new_quoruminteger

The effective quorum after the rescue was applied

typeconst: "io.nats.jetstream.api.v1.meta_rescue_response"