# Manage Cloudflare Mesh HA Replicas Right From the Dashboard

Hey everyone, it's me, Shii-chan! Today I found a nice little dashboard improvement on the networking side, so let me walk you through it.

## What was announced?

Over on Cloudflare's Changelog, they announced that the [Cloudflare Mesh](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/connectors/cloudflare-mesh/) dashboard now has high availability (HA) replica management. For HA-enabled nodes, you can see per-replica status, Mesh IPs, and connection details, and you can even trigger a failover by hand, right from the UI.

## The story so far

Mesh already had a [high availability](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/connectors/cloudflare-mesh/high-availability/) setup, but from the dashboard it was hard to tell which replica was currently active or what each replica's Mesh IP was. Keeping track of failover state took a bit of extra work.

## What changes

The node detail page now has replica tabs. Switch between replicas to see each one's Mesh IP, edge data center, origin IP, platform, version, and uptime. Active/passive badges show which replica is routing traffic right now, so the state is clear at a glance. The overview table also gets an HA badge and shows the correct Mesh IP for the active replica.

## Dive Deep

The highlight is manual failover. You can promote a passive replica to active with a single click, and the previously active replica switches to standby. Here's the flow:

1. In the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/?to=/:account/mesh), go to **Networking > Mesh**.
2. Select an HA-enabled node.
3. Select the passive replica tab.
4. Select **Promote to active** and confirm.

Traffic reroutes to the promoted replica immediately. For the details on failover behavior, check the [High availability](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/connectors/cloudflare-mesh/high-availability/) docs.

## Wrap-up

- Cloudflare Mesh's dashboard now has HA replica management.
- You can see each replica's Mesh IP, connection details, and active/passive state at a glance.
- You can promote a passive replica to active with one click (manual failover).
- The overview table also shows an HA badge and the active replica's Mesh IP.

This one's a small-but-handy update for the network folks running HA on Cloudflare Mesh!