# 5 of 16 shards failed

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-of-16-shards-failed/169294>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** fleet, metricbeat\
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-of-16-shards-failed/169294 "2019-02-20T21:26:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-of-16-shards-failed/169294/1 "2019-02-20T21:26:19Z")

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Hello World!

I'm using Elastic Stack 6.6.1 and after enrolling beats into Central Management, I now seeing following message in Kibana:

> 5 of 16 shards failed

above message was not prior to enroll, also `Infrastructure` stopped showing data as well( maybe related to:

> [@Failed to encode event: unsupported float value: NaN](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-encode-event-unsupported-float-value-nan/168666):
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> Hello World! I'm using Elastic stack 6.6.0 and I'm seeing following message in: /var/log/metricbeat/metricbeat 2019-02-16T04:20:27.500Z ERROR elasticsearch/client.go:376 Failed to encode event: unsupported float value: NaN configuration block: type: output output type: elasticsearch hosts: localhost:9200 username: elastic password: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*

Please advise.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-of-16-shards-failed/169294/2 "2019-02-21T00:41:20Z")

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Can you please check your Elasticsearch logs for the error and then post it?

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-of-16-shards-failed/169294/3 "2019-02-21T04:56:06Z")

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`elasticsearch` did not produce any errors even though `kibana` did.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 4:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-of-16-shards-failed/169294/4 "2019-02-21T04:57:09Z")

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It should have, those errors come from Elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-of-16-shards-failed/169294/5 "2019-02-21T05:03:25Z")

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i double checked and still nada... do I have to enable verbose logging in order to see those errors?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2019, 5:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-of-16-shards-failed/169294/6 "2019-02-21T05:04:00Z")

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No, they should show up.

Is there anything else in the Kibana logs then?

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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-of-16-shards-failed/169294/7 "2019-02-22T05:10:06Z")

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I actually checked both elasticsearch nodes: coordinate only (kibana endpoint) and actual master node and Kibana for errors, but not seeing any...

I even tried to delete all `filebeat-*` & `metricbeat-*` indices, followed by deleting `_template/filebeat-*`, `_termplate/metricbeat-*`, followed by re-running setup, yet still seeing "shards failed" in Kibana(

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/5-of-16-shards-failed/169294/8 "2019-03-22T05:10:10Z")

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