# All Shards Failed Issue

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shards-failed-issue/231702
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 8, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shards-failed-issue/231702 "2020-05-08T11:19:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![prashanthkumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@prashanthkumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prashanthkumar)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shards-failed-issue/231702/1 "2020-05-08T11:19:41Z")

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org.elasticsearch.xpack.monitoring.exporter.ExportException: [.monitoring-es-7-2019.05.09] IndexCreationException[failed to create index [.monitoring-es-7-2019.05.09]]; nested: ValidationException[Validation Failed: 1: this action would add [2] total shards, but this cluster currently has [996]/[1000] maximum shards open;]

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### Author: ![KoettingSimon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba9def/32.png) [@KoettingSimon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/KoettingSimon)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shards-failed-issue/231702/2 "2020-05-08T12:08:59Z")

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Looks like you have to many shards for 1 node.  
The best way would be to reduce your Shards. temporary you can incress the 1000 Shards limit, see: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/allocation-total-shards.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/allocation-total-shards.html)

I recommend to read this Article: [https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-many-shards-should-i-have-in-my-elasticsearch-cluster](https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-many-shards-should-i-have-in-my-elasticsearch-cluster)

Best,  
Simon

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2020, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shards-failed-issue/231702/3 "2020-05-08T12:09:19Z")

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What is the output of:

```auto
GET /
GET /_cat/nodes?v
GET /_cat/health?v
GET /_cat/indices?v 

```

If some outputs are too big, please share them on [gist.github.com](http://gist.github.com) and link them here.

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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: [June 5, 2020, 12:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-shards-failed-issue/231702/4 "2020-06-05T12:09:32Z")

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