# Dangled indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dangled-indices/123845>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 14, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dangled-indices/123845 "2018-03-14T06:50:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![z\_y\_xing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d2c977/32.png) [@z\_y\_xing](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/z_y_xing)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dangled-indices/123845/1 "2018-03-14T06:50:35Z")

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forgive my bad english!

i read this document about [dangling indices](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/_dangling_indices.html#_dangling_indices)  
here was a part:  
.....  
any shards stored in its local data directory directory which **do not already exist** in the cluster ...

i thought closed index also have a meta info,but as follow fact confusing for me.

i get indices info via:

```auto
GET _cat/indices
...
      close malfunctionlog-20171121 DtbhNG-uS8m8uoNKEL0pDA     
...

```

and my es log:

```auto
[2018-03-14T12:33:11,873][WARN][o.e.c.m.MetaDataIndexUpgradeService] [master_183_97] [malfunctionlog-20171121/DtbhNG-uS8m8uoNKEL0pDA] ignoring unknown index setting: [index.store.throttle.max_bytes_per_sec] with value [30mb]; archiving
[2018-03-14T12:33:11,875][INFO][o.e.g.LocalAllocateDangledIndices] [master_183_97] auto importing dangled indices [[malfunctionlog-20171121/DtbhNG-uS8m8uoNKEL0pDA]/CLOSE] from [{data_188_54}{YYokJS_-RACuV5LDY94H5Q}{bO723BNsTveimfmnWa1PVQ}{10.8.188.54}{10.8.188.54:9300}{ml.max_open_jobs=10, ml.enabled=true}]
[2018-03-14T12:33:15,385][WARN][o.e.m.j.JvmGcMonitorService] [master_183_97] [gc][7384835] overhead, spent [527ms] collecting in the last [1s]

```

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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:** [April 11, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dangled-indices/123845/2 "2018-04-11T06:50:35Z")

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