Maintenance

This document outlines maintenance actions that can be manually triggered against a running database node.

POST /system/finish-block

This endpoint allows clients to manually trigger a block boundary in the transaction log by sending a finish-block message. This is especially useful in operational contexts such as after significant batch jobs, data imports, or migrations.

When called, the endpoint sends a finish-block message to the transaction log.

The endpoint is exposed via the healthz service on the configured HTTP port (typically 8080):

POST /system/finish-block

Example

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/system/finish-block
# HTTP/1.1 200 OK
# Block flush message sent successfully.