[Reconfigure GitLab](../restart_gitlab.md#omnibus-gitlab-reconfigure) for the changes to take effect.
### Reset the Patroni state in Consul
WARNING:
This is a destructive process and may lead the cluster into a bad state. Make sure that you have a healthy backup before running this process.
As a last resort, if your Patroni cluster is in an unknown/bad state and no node can start, you can
reset the Patroni state in Consul completely, resulting in a reinitialized Patroni cluster when
the first Patroni node starts.
To reset the Patroni state in Consul:
1. Take note of the Patroni node that was the leader, or that the application thinks is the current leader, if the current state shows more than one, or none. One way to do this is to look on the PgBouncer nodes in `/var/opt/gitlab/consul/databases.ini`, which contains the hostname of the current leader.