Related to "Nodes"

Manage the node lifecycle

Understand how an InfluxDB 3 Enterprise node moves through the running, stopping, stopped, and removing states—how to restart, stop, and permanently remove nodes, and how to keep Helm, Kubernetes, and Ansible deployments on the graceful shutdown path.

Recover a crashed node

Safely recover an InfluxDB 3 Enterprise node that crashed or was stopped without a graceful stop node: restart it with the same node ID, let it drain its write-ahead log (WAL), stop it gracefully, and then remove it.