# 3 node cluster errors
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/3-node-cluster-errors/232088
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 11, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/3-node-cluster-errors/232088 "2020-05-11T17:56:19Z")
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### Author:  [@kawalec](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kawalec)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/3-node-cluster-errors/232088/1 "2020-05-11T17:56:19Z")
I've followed the instructions to set up 3 node cluster. I also have added master node: true and data node: true to all nodes and have tried without. No matter what I do I can not get my cluster to run clean. Can not see what I could be doing wrong
curl -u elastic -XGET [http://10.10.x.x:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty](http://10.10.x.x:9200/_cluster/health?pretty)
Enter host password for user 'elastic':
{
"cluster\_name" : "elk",
"status" : "yellow",
"timed\_out" : false,
"number\_of\_nodes" : 1,
"number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 1,
"active\_primary\_shards" : 38,
"active\_shards" : 38,
"relocating\_shards" : 0,
"initializing\_shards" : 0,
"unassigned\_shards" : 17,
"delayed\_unassigned\_shards" : 0,
"number\_of\_pending\_tasks" : 0,
"number\_of\_in\_flight\_fetch" : 0,
"task\_max\_waiting\_in\_queue\_millis" : 0,
"active\_shards\_percent\_as\_number" : 69.0909090909091
}
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### Author:  [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/3-node-cluster-errors/232088/2 "2020-05-11T18:17:27Z")
> [@kawalec](#):
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> "unassigned\_shards" : 17
it is yellow because of above reason.
[https://qbox.io/blog/unassigned-shards-elasticsearch-cluster-allocation-explain-api](https://qbox.io/blog/unassigned-shards-elasticsearch-cluster-allocation-explain-api)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/3-node-cluster-errors/232088/3 "2020-06-08T18:17:33Z")
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