# All shards failed exception during reindexing kibana index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shards-failed-exception-during-reindexing-kibana-index/194669>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 9, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shards-failed-exception-during-reindexing-kibana-index/194669 "2019-08-09T18:50:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![shivani\_aggarwal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@shivani\_aggarwal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shivani_aggarwal)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shards-failed-exception-during-reindexing-kibana-index/194669/1 "2019-08-09T18:50:33Z")

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Hi,  
I am running ELK 7.0.1 cluster in kubernetes environment.  
I had few visualizations stored in .kibana\_1 index. I have taken the snapshot of this.  
Later, .kibana\_1 index was deleted & it got recreated when kibana was restarted. The new .kibana has some other saved objects(dashboards, index patterns) etc.

I restored from the snapshot & renamed the restored index as .kibana\_1-restored. Now, I have .kibana alias pointing to two .kibana indices.

> green open .kibana\_1  
> green open .kibana\_1-restored\_1565373769

Because I can't load kibana UI when .kibana alias points to two indices, I tried merging the documents from both these indices into one & deleting the other. For merging, I use Re-index API as shown:

> curl -HContent-Type:application/json -XPOST "http://$ELASTICSEARCH\_SERVICE:$CLIENT\_PORT/\_reindex?pretty" -d'{  
> "source": {  
> "index": "'$source\_index'"  
> },  
> "dest": {  
> "index": "'$dest\_index'"  
> }  
> }'\>

With this, I see following error logs in elasticsearch:

> {"type":"log","host":"shiv-es-elasticsearch-client-699d5f4fd4-hm58q","level":"WARN","systemid":"a6aab87097d14ff5b192d56f1d73ff1a","time": "2019-08-09T13:57:01.055Z","logger":"o.e.i.r.TransportReindexAction","timezone":"UTC","marker":"[shiv-es-elasticsearch-client-699d5f4fd4-hm58q] ","log":"giving up on search because it failed with a non-retryable exception"}  
> org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchPhaseExecutionException: all shards failed  
> at org.elasticsearch.action.search.AbstractSearchAsyncAction.onPhaseFailure(AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java:296) ~[elasticsearch-7.0.1.jar:7.0.1]  
> at org.elasticsearch.action.search.AbstractSearchAsyncAction.executeNextPhase(AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java:139) ~[elasticsearch-7.0.1.jar:7.0.1]  
> at org.elasticsearch.action.search.AbstractSearchAsyncAction.onPhaseDone(AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java:259) ~[elasticsearch-7.0.1.jar:7.0.1]  
> at org.elasticsearch.action.search.InitialSearchPhase.onShardFailure(InitialSearchPhase.java:105) ~[elasticsearch-7.0.1.jar:7.0.1]  
> at org.elasticsearch.action.search.InitialSearchPhase.lambda$performPhaseOnShard$1(InitialSearchPhase.java:251) ~[elasticsearch-7.0.1.jar:7.0.1]  
> at org.elasticsearch.action.search.InitialSearchPhase$1.doRun(InitialSearchPhase.java:172) [elasticsearch-7.0.1.jar:7.0.1]  
> at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) [elasticsearch-7.0.1.jar:7.0.1]  
> at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.TimedRunnable.doRun(TimedRunnable.java:41) [elasticsearch-7.0.1.jar:7.0.1]  
> at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:751) [elasticsearch-7.0.1.jar:7.0.1]  
> at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:37) [elasticsearch-7.0.1.jar:7.0.1]  
> at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:11

The indices did not get reindexed as the documents from .kibana\_1-restored did not get copied to .kibana\_1. In this case, to access kibana, I will have to delete either of these kibana indices but this will result in loss of saved objects (on the UI).  
Can you tell me if the approach to re-index kibana indices using re-index api is correct? If yes, what could be causing this error here?

Thanks,  
Shivani

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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:** [September 6, 2019, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shards-failed-exception-during-reindexing-kibana-index/194669/2 "2019-09-06T19:00:14Z")

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