Hi, I don't think there's a direct way, although this seems a useful thing to add. One think you could do is to issue a reconfig changing the leader's leading/quorum port (through which it talks with the followers). This will cause it to give up leadership while keeping it in the cluster. Cheers, Alex On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Jeff Potter < jpotter-zookeeper@codepuppy.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a way to “retire” a leader while keeping it in the cluster? > > Thanks, > Jeff