#data-fidelity

Consul Raft snapshots and data plane state: post-restore fidelity verification for KV, catalog, and mesh config

Consul Raft snapshots capture the entire Raft state at a specific index and term, including the KV store, service catalog, prepared queries, ACLs, and Connect CA and intentions data. Snapshot restore is destructive and overwrites the full Raft state on the target server. The integration boundary between the snapshot mechanism and the data plane state is the