miroir/docs/ctl

miroir-ctl Runbooks

This directory contains runbooks for each miroir-ctl subcommand. Each runbook includes:

• Purpose (one sentence)
• Preconditions (what must be true before running)
• Examples (common invocations)
• Gotchas (edge cases and warnings)
• See also (plan section references)

Runbooks

Command	Runbook	Description
status	status.md	Show cluster health and node status
node	node.md	Add, remove, drain, and list nodes
rebalance	rebalance.md	Monitor shard migrations
reshard	reshard.md	Change index shard count
verify	verify.md	Check data integrity across replicas
task	task.md	Monitor background tasks
dump	dump.md	Export and import index data
alias	alias.md	Manage index aliases
canary	canary.md	Control canary deployments
ttl	ttl.md	Manage document expiration policies
cdc	cdc.md	Configure change data capture
shadow	shadow.md	Manage shadow indexing
ui	ui.md	Launch the Admin UI
tenant	tenant.md	Manage multi-tenancy
explain	explain.md	Analyze query plans
key	key.md	Manage API keys

Quick Reference

# Cluster health
miroir-ctl status --watch

# Node operations
miroir-ctl node add --id node-3 --address http://node-3:7700 --replica-group 0
miroir-ctl node drain node-2
miroir-ctl node remove node-2

# Monitor operations
miroir-ctl rebalance status --watch
miroir-ctl task status

# Data operations
miroir-ctl dump export --index myindex --output myindex.dump
miroir-ctl verify --index myindex

# Admin UI
miroir-ctl ui

Authentication

All commands require an admin API key. Set it via:

1. Environment variable: export MIROIR_ADMIN_API_KEY=...
2. Credentials file: ~/.config/miroir/credentials with [default].admin_api_key
3. Command line flag: --admin-key ... (WARNING: visible in process list)

See also

• Plan §11 — common operations
• Plan §4 — crate layout
• Troubleshooting — common issues