diff --git a/articles/reliability/reliability-cosmos-db-nosql.md b/articles/reliability/reliability-cosmos-db-nosql.md index a6ac8de72aadf..7d1043b165c43 100644 --- a/articles/reliability/reliability-cosmos-db-nosql.md +++ b/articles/reliability/reliability-cosmos-db-nosql.md @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ For single-region accounts, clients experience a loss of read and write availabi #### Testing for high availability -Even if your Azure Cosmos DB account is highly available, your application might not be correctly designed to remain highly available. To test the end-to-end high availability of your application as a part of your application testing or disaster recovery (DR) drills, temporarily disable service-managed failover for the account. Invoke [manual failover by using PowerShell, the Azure CLI, or the Azure portal](/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-manage-database-account#perform-manual-failover-on-an-azure-cosmos-db-account), and then monitor your application. After you complete the test, you can fail back over to the primary region and restore service-managed failover for the account. +Even if your Azure Cosmos DB account is highly available, your application might not be correctly designed to remain highly available. To test the end-to-end high availability of your application as a part of your application testing or disaster recovery (DR) drills, temporarily disable service-managed failover for the account. Invoke [manual failover by using PowerShell, the Azure CLI, or the Azure portal](/azure/cosmos-db/how-to-manage-database-account#perform-forced-failover-for-your-azure-cosmos-db-account), and then monitor your application. After you complete the test, you can fail back over to the primary region and restore service-managed failover for the account. > [!IMPORTANT] > Don't invoke manual failover during an Azure Cosmos DB outage on either the source or destination region. Manual failover requires region connectivity to maintain data consistency, so it won't succeed.