/sys/key-status

The /sys/key-status endpoint is used to query info about the current encryption key of Vault.

Get encryption key status

This endpoint returns information about the current encryption key used by Vault.

Method	Path
GET	/sys/key-status

Sample request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    --request GET \
    http://127.0.0.1:8200/v1/sys/key-status

Sample response

{
  "term": 3,
  "install_time": "2015-05-29T14:50:46.223692553-07:00",
  "encryptions": 74718331
}

The term parameter is the sequential key number. install_time is the time that encryption key was installed. encryptions is the estimated number of encryptions made by the key including those on other cluster nodes.

Note that the estimated encryption count is aggregated from secondary Vault nodes to the primary but not in the other direction. Thus the count only accurately reflects the cluster-wide estimate when queried on the primary.