# Cleaning up red Shards **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 8, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleaning-up-red-shards/19660 "2014-09-08T13:34:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnathan\_Phan\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@Johnathan\_Phan\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Johnathan_Phan_3)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleaning-up-red-shards/19660/1 "2014-09-08T13:34:38Z")
Hi everyone, say you have 100-200 index's where one of the shards, replica and primary have gotten corrupted. Lets just say they are completely bonked. Someone must have a simply query to identify which index's these are and how to mass delete them all since they have entered an unrecoverable state. Regards John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/af6f5731-ccbc-4cf9-adcf-673e65849825%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/af6f5731-ccbc-4cf9-adcf-673e65849825%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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:** [September 8, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleaning-up-red-shards/19660/2 "2014-09-08T20:57:28Z")
Check out the cat APIs for, there are end points for indexes and shards that will give you this info. Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com) web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com) On 8 September 2014 23:34, Johnathan Phan [jphan@berryjar.com](mailto:jphan@berryjar.com) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > say you have 100-200 index's where one of the shards, replica and primary > have gotten corrupted. Lets just say they are completely bonked. > > Someone must have a simply query to identify which index's these are and > how to mass delete them all since they have entered an unrecoverable state. > > Regards > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/af6f5731-ccbc-4cf9-adcf-673e65849825%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/af6f5731-ccbc-4cf9-adcf-673e65849825%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/af6f5731-ccbc-4cf9-adcf-673e65849825%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/af6f5731-ccbc-4cf9-adcf-673e65849825%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Z3sK8VtA4i3xq6y5bXz%3Dz1LrGhRgri3tHaRsM%3DcPiC3A%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Z3sK8VtA4i3xq6y5bXz%3Dz1LrGhRgri3tHaRsM%3DcPiC3A%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Johnathan\_Phan\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Johnathan\_Phan\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Johnathan_Phan_2)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleaning-up-red-shards/19660/3 "2014-09-09T09:57:54Z")
Hey mate, sorry solved this in the irc channel. For future reference I created the following command to delete all red index's. curl -s localhost:9200/\_cat/indices 2\>&1 | grep ^red | awk '{print $2}' | while read red; do curl -XDELETE '[http://localhost:9200/$red](http://localhost:9200/$red)'; done Regards John On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Mark Walkom [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com) wrote: > Check out the cat APIs for, there are end points for indexes and shards > that will give you this info. > > Regards, > Mark Walkom > > Infrastructure Engineer > Campaign Monitor > email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com) > web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com) > > On 8 September 2014 23:34, Johnathan Phan [jphan@berryjar.com](mailto:jphan@berryjar.com) wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > say you have 100-200 index's where one of the shards, replica and primary > > have gotten corrupted. Lets just say they are completely bonked. > > > > Someone must have a simply query to identify which index's these are and > > how to mass delete them all since they have entered an unrecoverable state. > > > > Regards > > > > John > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "elasticsearch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/af6f5731-ccbc-4cf9-adcf-673e65849825%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/af6f5731-ccbc-4cf9-adcf-673e65849825%40googlegroups.com) > > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/af6f5731-ccbc-4cf9-adcf-673e65849825%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/af6f5731-ccbc-4cf9-adcf-673e65849825%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > > . > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/PJt6iA5AAcc/unsubscribe](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/PJt6iA5AAcc/unsubscribe). > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Z3sK8VtA4i3xq6y5bXz%3Dz1LrGhRgri3tHaRsM%3DcPiC3A%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Z3sK8VtA4i3xq6y5bXz%3Dz1LrGhRgri3tHaRsM%3DcPiC3A%40mail.gmail.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Z3sK8VtA4i3xq6y5bXz%3Dz1LrGhRgri3tHaRsM%3DcPiC3A%40mail.gmail.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Z3sK8VtA4i3xq6y5bXz%3Dz1LrGhRgri3tHaRsM%3DcPiC3A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPfM1kBMBnEPU%3DdpR7ADR1%3DX%3DtbYuKJkgwLiAfbLu1xK0k6mdg%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPfM1kBMBnEPU%3DdpR7ADR1%3DX%3DtbYuKJkgwLiAfbLu1xK0k6mdg%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cleaning-up-red-shards/19660/4 "2017-07-06T01:03:46Z")