Hello, Yesterday we upgraded our cluster from 8.5.1 to 8.8.1 and now the shards are unbalacend between the nodes and the cluster keeps moving shards around to try to balance it. I have a hot/warm architecture with 4 hot nodes and 12 warm nodes with just ~ 50 TB of data in total, even after 12 hour…

Cluster shards unbalanced and keep moving shards around after upgrade to 8.8.1

DavidTurner (David Turner) June 27, 2023, 2:46pm 13

I don't recognise that message - it's not coming from Elasticsearch.

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Cluster shards unbalanced and keep moving shards around after upgrade to 8.8.1

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