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The `members` command outputs the current list of members that a Consul agent knows about, along with their state. The state of a node can only be alive, left, or failed.
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# Consul Members
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Command: `consul members`
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The `members` command outputs the current list of members that a Consul
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agent knows about, along with their state. The state of a node can only
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be "alive", "left", or "failed".
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Nodes in the "failed" state are still listed because Consul attempts to
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reconnect with failed nodes for a certain amount of time in the case
that the failure is actually just a network partition.
## Usage
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Usage: `consul members [options]`
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The command-line flags are all optional. The list of available flags are:
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* `-detailed` - If provided, output shows more detailed information
about each node.
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* `-rpc-addr` - Address to the RPC server of the agent you want to contact
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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* `-status` - If provided, output is filtered to only nodes matching
the regular expression for status
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* `-wan` - For agents in Server mode, this will return the list of nodes
in the WAN gossip pool. These are generally all the server nodes in
each datacenter.