---
title: "Restart a server"
method: POST
path: "/api/clusters/{clusterName}/servers/{serverName}/actions/restart"
tags: ["DatabaseActions"]
---

# Restart a server

`POST /api/clusters/{clusterName}/servers/{serverName}/actions/restart`

## Request

- The document declares no server URL.
- Auth: none declared. Required headers: `Authorization`

Restarts a specified server within a cluster (queues restart asynchronously), optionally on a specific node and/or specific resource ID. Only OpenSVC orchestrator is supported. Only 'container#jobs' is allowed for rid parameter.

## Path parameters

- `clusterName` string, required
- `serverName` string, required

## Query parameters

- `node` string
- `rid` string

## Headers

- `Authorization` string, required

## Response `200`

Restart queued successfully

- object

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid rid parameter
- `403`: No valid ACL
- `404`: Cluster Not Found or Server Not Found
- `501`: Orchestrator not supported

## Changes

- **2026-07-17** `7465ea0ee21a`: 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2023-03-31** `b57fc7b9446e`: 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/signal18/apis/signal-18-dashboard-api/changes/api/clusters/:clusterName/servers/:serverName/actions/restart/post.md)

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