# Cluster Health (3 unassigned shards)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-health-3-unassigned-shards/84700>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 5, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-health-3-unassigned-shards/84700 "2017-05-05T11:12:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaeldtaylor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michaeldtaylor/32/17757_2.png) [@michaeldtaylor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michaeldtaylor)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-health-3-unassigned-shards/84700/1 "2017-05-05T11:12:45Z")

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I've had some problems with my cluster when I added a simple synonyms bundle and clicked update.

Long story short it now looks more stable, but I have 3x unassigned shards across 2x indices:

.security (1)  
my\_index (2)

My cluster is multi-datacenter and has the following instances:

instance-0000000005  
instance-0000000006  
tiebreaker-0000000004

I have tried to allocate them directly using Kibana and the command:

```
POST /_cluster/reroute
{
  "commands": [{
    "allocate": {
        "index": ".security",
        "shard": 0,
        "node": "instance-0000000005",
        "allow_primary": true
      }
  }]
}

POST /_cluster/reroute
{
  "commands": [{
    "allocate": {
        "index": "my_index",
        "shard": 0,
        "node": "instance-0000000005",
        "allow_primary": true
      }
  }]
}

```

But I get:

```
{
  "error": {
    "root_cause": [
      {
        "type": "unknown_named_object_exception",
        "reason": "Unknown AllocationCommand [allocate]",
        "line": 3,
        "col": 17
      }
    ],
    "type": "parsing_exception",
    "reason": "[cluster_reroute] failed to parse field [commands]",
    "line": 3,
    "col": 17,
    "caused_by": {
      "type": "unknown_named_object_exception",
      "reason": "Unknown AllocationCommand [allocate]",
      "line": 3,
      "col": 17
    }
  },
  "status": 400
}

```

How do i get these shards assigned using Elastic Cloud?

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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 2, 2017, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-health-3-unassigned-shards/84700/2 "2017-06-02T11:16:55Z")

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