Hi, I’m studying how to manage a Dgraph cluster and I’d like to know how to proceed when one alpha dies. My PoC is: I have the zero and alphas running on different machines. Something happens and one of the alphas dies. If I try to launch another alpha, it seems is healthy but the gRPC communicati…

You’ll want to start off with an odd number of Alphas to maintain a majority quorum. Because you started with 2 Alphas and stopped the second one, a majority of the Alpha group isn’t up so even if the new third Alpha joins the cluster, there’s no current leader to connect to. There won’t be until yo…

What to do if the leader crashes?

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gustavohenrique (Gustavo Henrique) June 18, 2021, 12:36am 3

@dmai Thanks a lot!

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What to do if the leader crashes?

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