# Closing index and memory missing warning?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closing-index-and-memory-missing-warning/313993>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 8, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closing-index-and-memory-missing-warning/313993 "2022-09-08T12:33:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![ewolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@ewolfman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ewolfman)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closing-index-and-memory-missing-warning/313993/1 "2022-09-08T12:33:08Z")

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Continuing the discussion from [Does close index free up disk or memory](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-close-index-free-up-disk-or-memory/258868/2):

Maybe this warning about losing data ("To reduce the risk of data loss..." [Open / Close Index API | Elasticsearch Guide [6.8] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/indices-open-close.html#indices-open-close)) from 6.8 documentation should be added to 7/8 documentation. It seems to be missing: [Close index API | Elasticsearch Guide [7.17] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.17/indices-close.html)

Or, is there a reason why it is missing? Has something changed making this warning no longer relevant?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closing-index-and-memory-missing-warning/313993/2 "2022-09-08T13:42:17Z")

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> [@ewolfman](#):
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> Or, is there a reason why it is missing? Has something changed making this warning no longer relevant?

In newer versions closed indices are tracked by the cluster and if a node holding a shard copy was to go down the cluster will recover it to another node. This was not the case before version 7, which is why the warning was in place.

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**Author:** ![ewolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@ewolfman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ewolfman)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closing-index-and-memory-missing-warning/313993/3 "2022-09-08T14:14:23Z")

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Thanks!

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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:** [October 6, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/closing-index-and-memory-missing-warning/313993/4 "2022-10-06T14:15:02Z")

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