# Active cluster arbitrator (aka Judge)

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Judge is a service we use in HA multiregion clusters to which advertises a JSON object for which region is active is which region is standby

```json
{
    "active": "eu",
    "secondary": "us"
}
```

Other services in Hopsworks poll the Judge to decide if they are Active or Standby.

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