# Allocate all unassigned shards at once!

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocate-all-unassigned-shards-at-once/352614>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 6, 2024, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocate-all-unassigned-shards-at-once/352614 "2024-02-06T09:51:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johannes\_Haufila](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johannes_haufila/32/125164_2.png) [@Johannes\_Haufila](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Johannes_Haufila)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocate-all-unassigned-shards-at-once/352614/1 "2024-02-06T09:51:39Z")

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how to allocate all unassigned shards at once. In my case I have 2897 missing replicas on my cluster

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**Author:** ![jessgarson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jessgarson/32/129841_2.png) [@jessgarson](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jessgarson)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocate-all-unassigned-shards-at-once/352614/2 "2024-02-07T22:32:16Z")

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Thanks for posting, welcome @Johannes_Haufila! I found a [similar forum post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-with-status-elasticsearch-can-allocate-the-shard-for-all-of-them/333806) that may be helpful as well as this [guide](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/diagnose-unassigned-shards.html).

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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 6, 2024, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/allocate-all-unassigned-shards-at-once/352614/3 "2024-03-06T22:32:47Z")

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