# At least one primary shard for the index \[.security-7\] is unavailable
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-least-one-primary-shard-for-the-index-security-7-is-unavailable/249508
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 22, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-least-one-primary-shard-for-the-index-security-7-is-unavailable/249508 "2020-09-22T11:57:23Z")
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### Author:  [@naveenj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naveenj)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-least-one-primary-shard-for-the-index-security-7-is-unavailable/249508/1 "2020-09-22T11:57:23Z")
Getting bellow error but elastic and kibana both working fine. Let me know the issue?
```auto
org.elasticsearch.action.UnavailableShardsException: at least one primary shard for the index [.security-7] is unavailable
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.support.SecurityIndexManager.getUnavailableReason(SecurityIndexManager.java:181) ~[x-pack-security-7.9.0.jar:7.9.0]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.security.authz.store.NativePrivilegeStore.innerGetPrivileges(NativePrivilegeStore.java:185) [x-pack-security-7.9.0.jar:7.9.0]
....
org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchPhaseExecutionException: all shards failed
at org.elasticsearch.action.search.AbstractSearchAsyncAction.onPhaseFailure(AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java:551) [elasticsearch-7.9.0.jar:7.9.0]
...
org.elasticsearch.action.NoShardAvailableActionException: No shard available for [get [.kibana][_doc][space:default]: routing [null]]
...
[2020-09-21T21:23:54,004][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService] [Innode] Cluster health status changed from [RED] to [YELLOW] (reason: [shards started [[.kibana_task_manager_1][0]]]).
[2020-09-21T21:24:17,331][INFO][o.e.c.m.MetadataIndexTemplateService] [Innode] adding template [.management-beats] for index patterns [.management-beats]
........
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-least-one-primary-shard-for-the-index-security-7-is-unavailable/249508/2 "2020-09-23T21:38:45Z")
What's the output from `_cat/allocation?v`?
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### Author:  [@naveenj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naveenj)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2020, 5:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-least-one-primary-shard-for-the-index-security-7-is-unavailable/249508/3 "2020-09-25T05:58:52Z")
Thanks for the responce. Please check following output
get \_cat/allocation?v
```auto
23 22.6mb 75.3gb 124.6gb 199.9gb 37 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 node1
16 UNASSIGNED
```
get \_cat/shards?v
```auto
index shard prirep state docs store ip node
.kibana_task_manager_1 0 p STARTED 6 326.2kb 0.0.0.0 node1
.kibana-event-log-7.9.0-000001 0 p STARTED 1 5.5kb 0.0.0.0 node1
rawdatas 1 p STARTED 1446 509.2kb 0.0.0.0 node1
rawdatas 1 r UNASSIGNED
rawdatas 3 p STARTED 1501 518.4kb 0.0.0.0 node1
rawdatas 3 r UNASSIGNED
rawdatas 4 p STARTED 1459 480.8kb 0.0.0.0 node1
rawdatas 4 r UNASSIGNED
rawdatas 2 p STARTED 1483 460.3kb 0.0.0.0 node1
rawdatas 2 r UNASSIGNED
rawdatas 0 p STARTED 1432 450.9kb 0.0.0.0 node1
rawdatas 0 r UNASSIGNED
configuration_file 0 p STARTED 4 115kb 0.0.0.0 node1
configuration_file 0 r UNASSIGNED
satas 1 p STARTED 6347 1.4mb 0.0.0.0 node1
satas 1 r UNASSIGNED
satas 3 p STARTED 6354 1.4mb 0.0.0.0 node1
satas 3 r UNASSIGNED
satas 4 p STARTED 6408 1.4mb 0.0.0.0 node1
satas 4 r UNASSIGNED
satas 2 p STARTED 6473 1.4mb 0.0.0.0 node1
satas 2 r UNASSIGNED
satas 0 p STARTED 6261 1.4mb 0.0.0.0 node1
satas 0 r UNASSIGNED
.apm-custom-link 0 p STARTED 0 208b 0.0.0.0 node1
.apm-agent-configuration 0 p STARTED 0 208b 0.0.0.0 node1
metrics 1 p STARTED 901 399.1kb 0.0.0.0 node1
metrics 1 r UNASSIGNED
metrics 3 p STARTED 918 416.8kb 0.0.0.0 node1
metrics 3 r UNASSIGNED
metrics 4 p STARTED 918 434.1kb 0.0.0.0 node1
metrics 4 r UNASSIGNED
metrics 2 p STARTED 967 437.2kb 0.0.0.0 node1
metrics 2 r UNASSIGNED
metrics 0 p STARTED 954 418.1kb 0.0.0.0 node1
metrics 0 r UNASSIGNED
.security-7 0 p STARTED 0.0.0.0 node1
ilm-history-2-000001 0 p STARTED 0.0.0.0 node1
.kibana_1 0 p STARTED 11 10.4mb 0.0.0.0 node1
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-least-one-primary-shard-for-the-index-security-7-is-unavailable/249508/4 "2020-09-28T01:20:54Z")
> [@naveenj](#):
>
> ```auto
> .security-7 0 p STARTED 0.0.0.0 node1
>
> ```
That would suggest that there isn't a problem. Is that log you posted the latest one, or older?
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### Author:  [@naveenj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naveenj)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-least-one-primary-shard-for-the-index-security-7-is-unavailable/249508/5 "2020-09-28T04:28:25Z")
This logs are latest only
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/at-least-one-primary-shard-for-the-index-security-7-is-unavailable/249508/6 "2020-10-26T04:28:27Z")
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