---
title: "POST /v1/projects/{project}/instances/{instance}/promoteReplica"
method: POST
path: "/v1/projects/{project}/instances/{instance}/promoteReplica"
tags: ["instances"]
---

# POST /v1/projects/{project}/instances/{instance}/promoteReplica

`POST /v1/projects/{project}/instances/{instance}/promoteReplica`

Promotes the read replica instance to be an independent Cloud SQL primary instance. Using this operation might cause your instance to restart.

## Path parameters

- `project` string, required
- `instance` string, required

## Query parameters

- `failover` boolean

## Response `200`

Successful response

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