# Cluster Health yellow because of unassigned shards **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\ **Created:** [February 5, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-health-yellow-because-of-unassigned-shards/263459 "2021-02-05T19:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![maheshe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@maheshe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maheshe)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-health-yellow-because-of-unassigned-shards/263459/1 "2021-02-05T19:45:30Z")
The Cluster Health is yellow because of unassigned shards I have 1 master and 1 data node deployed through helm2 elastic repo. This is the getShards output, How can I turn cluster health to green by just having 1 master/1 data node without adding a new node. I will not be using the indexed data for long since this is a sandbox. ```auto GET CAT/SHARDS .async-search 0 p STARTED 2 26.7kb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 elastalert-000001 0 p STARTED 1 8.8kb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 elastalert-000001 0 r UNASSIGNED .monitoring-kibana-7-2021.02.05 0 p STARTED 996 320.5kb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 .monitoring-es-7-2021.02.05 0 p STARTED 10168 6.2mb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 .security-7 0 p STARTED 46 119.9kb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 elastalert-000001_error 0 p STARTED 0 208b 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 elastalert-000001_error 0 r UNASSIGNED elastalert-000001_silence 0 p STARTED 0 208b 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 elastalert-000001_silence 0 r UNASSIGNED .kibana_1 0 p STARTED 89 10.4mb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 .kibana-event-log-7.9.0-000001 0 p STARTED 1 5.4kb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 .apm-agent-configuration 0 p STARTED 0 208b 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 .kibana_task_manager_1 0 p STARTED 6 110.2kb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 .apm-custom-link 0 p STARTED 0 208b 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 ilm-history-2-000001 0 p STARTED 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 elastalert-000001_past 0 p STARTED 0 208b 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 elastalert-000001_past 0 r UNASSIGNED event.fluent-logs 0 p STARTED 3 9.1kb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 event.fluent-logs 0 r UNASSIGNED test-alert-index-2021.02.05 0 p STARTED 3 13.9kb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 test-alert-index-2021.02.05 0 r UNASSIGNED elastalert-000001_status 0 p STARTED 19 16.7kb 10.199.53.119 myElastic-es-data-b-0 ``` ---
**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-health-yellow-because-of-unassigned-shards/263459/2 "2021-02-05T20:57:44Z")
Since you only have one data node, you should have 0 replicas for your index. Update the number of replicas for your index to 0 and your cluster health will be green. The following request should work. ```auto PUT /*/_settings { "index" : { "number_of_replicas" : 0 } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![maheshe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@maheshe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maheshe)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-health-yellow-because-of-unassigned-shards/263459/3 "2021-02-05T22:48:13Z")
Awesome, my cluster is green now. Thank you. ```auto { "acknowledged" : true } ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-health-yellow-because-of-unassigned-shards/263459/4 "2021-03-05T22:48:46Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.