Cluster Yellow - Heap size overload

I found the problem.

I mixed curator and ILM for index management.

An ILM policy has crashed because of a closed index and grown up until 673Gb.

It started to saturate memory JVM. I reopened closed index and retry ILM policy. This solved ILM problem and a new index was created.

But this was not enough. The cache had to be clean to allow reassigning. After a cleaning and a rerouting process, the cluster is now green.

Here are the command which help me to solve it :slight_smile: :

Get allocation explanation

GET /index-000170/_ilm/explain

Open closed index

POST /index-000143/_open

Retry ilm policy :

POST /index-000170/_ilm/retry 

Get stat of fieldata :

GET _stats/fielddata?fielddata_fields=*  

Clear cache fielddata :

POST /index-00016*/_cache/clear

Restart failed allocation

POST _cluster/reroute?retry_failed=true

Sources :

I hope this can help someone a day. :slight_smile: