Five known Sentinel observers illustrate quorum two for failure agreement and majority three for failover authorization.

Sentinel has two gates: schematic.

Redis Sentinel coordinates primary failover

Redis Sentinel supervises a non-Cluster primary/replica deployment and publishes the current primary’s address. It does not store the application’s dataset or proxy its commands. Automatic promotion can restore write availability after a primary fails, but discovery, replica freshness, client reconnection, and protection from stale writers remain separate parts of the system. ...

January 9, 2027 · 7 min · XB Field Notes