# Cluster shards unbalanced and keep moving shards around after upgrade to 8.8.1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 21, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-shards-unbalanced-and-keep-moving-shards-around-after-upgrade-to-8-8-1/336573 "2023-06-21T12:05:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**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:** [June 28, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-shards-unbalanced-and-keep-moving-shards-around-after-upgrade-to-8-8-1/336573/17 "2023-06-28T14:13:23Z")
Hello @DavidTurner, There was another issue, a couple of the nodes were hitting the watermarks and others were close to it, so probably any shard movement could trigger another watermark that would then trigger another shard movement. I removed some old data to make sure that no node in the warm tier would hit any watermark, and after sometime there are no more shard movements. ```auto $ cat desired-balance.json | grep "node_is_desired" | grep -v relocating | grep false | wc -l 0 ``` --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cluster-shards-unbalanced-and-keep-moving-shards-around-after-upgrade-to-8-8-1/336573)._