---
title: "ROLE"
url: "https://docs.yugabyte.com/stable/yedis/api/role/"
---

# ROLE

YEDIS only has `master` role as far as Redis compatibility is concerned.

## Synopsis

**`ROLE`**

This command provides information of a Redis instance, such as its role, its state of replication, its followers, or its master. Roles are either "master", "follower", or "sentinel".

- Information of a master instance may include the following.
  
  - "master"
  - An integer that represents state of replication
  - An array of connected followers { IP address, IP port, State of replication }
- Information of a follower instance may include the following.
  
  - "follower"
  - Master IP address
  - Master IP port
  - Connection state that is either "disconnected", "connecting", "sync", or "connected"
  - An integer that represents state of replication
- Information of a sentinel instance may include the following.
  
  - "sentinel"
  - An array of master names.

## Return value

Returns an array of values.

## Examples

```sh
$ ROLE
```

```
1) "master"
2) 0
3) 1) 1) "127.0.0.1"
      2) "9200"
      3) "0"
   2) 1) "127.0.0.1"
      2) "9201"
      3) "0"
```

## See also

[`auth`](/stable/yedis/api/auth/ "auth"), [`config`](/stable/yedis/api/config/ "config")