Clarify the accuracy of estimated encryption counts wrt cluster nodes (…

…#11561)
hashicorp · May 27, 2021 · 652b15d · 652b15d
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diff --git a/website/content/api-docs/system/key-status.mdx b/website/content/api-docs/system/key-status.mdx
@@ -43,4 +43,9 @@ $ curl \
 The `term` parameter is the sequential key number. `install_time` is the
 time that encryption key was installed. `encryptions` is the estimated
 number of encryptions made by the key including those on other cluster
-nodes.
+nodes.  
+
+Note that the estimated encryption count is aggregated from secondary 
+Vault nodes to the primary but not in the other direction.  Thus the
+count only accurately reflects the cluster-wide estimate when queried
+on the primary.