Failover groups (formerly elastic addresses) provide high availability by managing automatic failover between primary and secondary stacks. They control traffic routing to ensure continuous service availability.
uidstringThe unique identifier of the failover group.
addressstringThe elastic IP address or DNS endpoint for the failover group.
current_stackstringThe identifier of the stack currently receiving traffic (primary or secondary).
primary_stack_uidstringThe UID of the primary stack in this failover group.
primary_stack_namestringThe display name of the primary stack.
secondary_stack_uidstringThe UID of the secondary (backup) stack in this failover group.
secondary_stack_namestringThe display name of the secondary (backup) stack.
busy_togglingbooleanWhether the failover group is currently switching between stacks.
readonlybooleanWhether the current user has read-only access to this failover group.
created_atdatetimeThe date and time the failover group was created, in ISO 8601 format.
updated_atdatetimeThe date and time the failover group was last updated, in ISO 8601 format.
Example
{
"uid": "failover-group-789xyz",
"address": "production-app.mycompany.com",
"current_stack": "primary",
"primary_stack_uid": "stack-primary-abc123",
"primary_stack_name": "production-web-app",
"secondary_stack_uid": "stack-secondary-def456",
"secondary_stack_name": "production-web-app-backup",
"busy_toggling": false,
"readonly": false,
"created_at": "2023-01-15T10:30:00Z",
"updated_at": "2024-01-05T16:45:00Z"
}