# Failover Group

URL: https://developers.cloud66.com/v3/models/failover-group/

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.

<Model>
    <ModelProperty name="uid" type="string">
        The unique identifier of the failover group.
    </ModelProperty>
    <ModelProperty name="address" type="string">
        The elastic IP address or DNS endpoint for the failover group.
    </ModelProperty>
    <ModelProperty name="current_stack" type="string">
        The identifier of the stack currently receiving traffic (primary or secondary).
    </ModelProperty>
    <ModelProperty name="primary_stack_uid" type="string">
        The UID of the primary stack in this failover group.
    </ModelProperty>
    <ModelProperty name="primary_stack_name" type="string">
        The display name of the primary stack.
    </ModelProperty>
    <ModelProperty name="secondary_stack_uid" type="string">
        The UID of the secondary (backup) stack in this failover group.
    </ModelProperty>
    <ModelProperty name="secondary_stack_name" type="string">
        The display name of the secondary (backup) stack.
    </ModelProperty>
    <ModelProperty name="busy_toggling" type="boolean">
        Whether the failover group is currently switching between stacks.
    </ModelProperty>
    <ModelProperty name="readonly" type="boolean">
        Whether the current user has read-only access to this failover group.
    </ModelProperty>
    <ModelProperty name="created_at" type="datetime">
        The date and time the failover group was created, in ISO 8601 format.
    </ModelProperty>
    <ModelProperty name="updated_at" type="datetime">
        The date and time the failover group was last updated, in ISO 8601 format.
    </ModelProperty>
</Model>

## Example

```json
{
  "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"
}
```