/sys/seal-backend-status

The /sys/seal-backend-status endpoint is used to display the status of each backing seal.

Seal Backend Status

This endpoint returns the seal status of the Vault. This is an unauthenticated endpoint.

For each seal backend, the following information is returned:

• name (string: "") - Specifies the identifier of the seal backend.
• configured (bool: true) - Indicates whether the backend was successfully initialized.
• disabled (bool: false) - Indicates whether the backend is disabled.
• healthy (bool: false) - Indicates the current health status of the backend.
• unhealthy_since (string: "") - Timestamp (RFC3339 format) indicating when the backend became unhealthy (only present if unhealthy).

Sample request

$ curl \
    http://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/sys/seal-backend-status

Sample response

{ 
  "healthy": false,
  "unhealthy_since": "2023-09-22T08:34:11Z",
  "fully_wrapped": false,
  "backends": [
     {
      "name": "hsm",
      "healthy": true,
      "configured": true,
      "disabled": false,
     },
     {
      "name": "transit",
      "healthy": false,
      "configured": true,
      "disabled": false,
      "unhealthy_since": "2023-09-22T08:34:11Z"
     }
  ]
}