diff --git a/website/content/docs/agent/options.mdx b/website/content/docs/agent/options.mdx index 452b2e51cd..11eae98ae1 100644 --- a/website/content/docs/agent/options.mdx +++ b/website/content/docs/agent/options.mdx @@ -1408,19 +1408,25 @@ There are also a number of common configuration options supported by all provide if servers have more than one CPU core. Setting this to zero disables rate limiting. Added in 1.4.1. - - `leaf_cert_ttl` ((#ca_leaf_cert_ttl)) The upper bound on the lease - duration of a leaf certificate issued for a service. In most cases a new leaf + - `leaf_cert_ttl` ((#ca_leaf_cert_ttl)) Specifies the upper bound on the expiry + of a leaf certificate issued for a service. In most cases a new leaf certificate will be requested by a proxy before this limit is reached. This is also the effective limit on how long a server outage can last (with no leader) before network connections will start being rejected. Defaults to `72h`. - This value cannot be lower than 1 hour or higher than 1 year. + + You can specify a range from one hour (minimum) up to one year (maximum) using + the following units: `h`, `m`, `s`, `ms`, `us` (or `µs`), `ns`, or a combination + of those units, e.g. `1h5m`. This value is also used when rotating out old root certificates from the cluster. When a root certificate has been inactive (rotated out) for more than twice the _current_ `leaf_cert_ttl`, it will be removed from the trusted list. - - `root_cert_ttl` ((#ca_root_cert_ttl)) The time to live (TTL) for a root certificate. + - `intermediate_cert_ttl` ((#ca_intermediate_cert_ttl)) Specifies the expiry for the + intermediate certificates. Defaults to `8760h` (1 year). Must be at least 3 times `leaf_cert_ttl`. + + - `root_cert_ttl` ((#ca_root_cert_ttl)) Specifies the expiry for a root certificate. Defaults to 10 years as `87600h`. This value, if provided, needs to be higher than the intermediate certificate TTL. @@ -2212,7 +2218,11 @@ There are also a number of common configuration options supported by all provide ```json { "telemetry": { - "prefix_filter": ["+consul.raft.apply", "-consul.http", "+consul.http.GET"] + "prefix_filter": [ + "+consul.raft.apply", + "-consul.http", + "+consul.http.GET" + ] } } ```