# Disable shard allocation awareness **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 5, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621 "2018-12-05T23:10:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HugoP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hugop/32/43435_2.png) [@HugoP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HugoP)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/1 "2018-12-05T23:10:11Z")
Hello, Is it possible to disable shard allocation awareness ? Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/2 "2018-12-05T23:21:35Z")
Yes it is. ---
**Author:** ![HugoP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hugop/32/43435_2.png) [@HugoP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HugoP)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/3 "2018-12-05T23:24:28Z")
Hi, Is it possible to do it with the cluster update settings API ? Thanks ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/4 "2018-12-05T23:25:55Z")
Sure is! Have you looked in the docs for it? ---
**Author:** ![HugoP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hugop/32/43435_2.png) [@HugoP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HugoP)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/5 "2018-12-05T23:28:03Z")
Yes, but I haven't found anything (cf [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/allocation-awareness.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/allocation-awareness.html)) For your information, the setting was applied in the configuration file and I really need to disable it without restarting the node because I keep having some unassigned shards. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/6 "2018-12-05T23:33:05Z")
Ahh you want [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/shards-allocation.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/shards-allocation.html) ---
**Author:** ![HugoP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hugop/32/43435_2.png) [@HugoP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HugoP)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/7 "2018-12-05T23:36:12Z")
Yes, I do know this link 🙂. I have already tried to set cluster.routing.rebalance.enable to none but it didn't seem to work. Is it the good parameter ? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/8 "2018-12-05T23:41:31Z")
`cluster.routing.allocation.enable` should be set to `all`. Don't touch any of the others. ---
**Author:** ![HugoP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hugop/32/43435_2.png) [@HugoP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HugoP)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/9 "2018-12-05T23:44:55Z")
Ok but the shard allocation awareness will still be active and that's not what I want. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/10 "2018-12-06T00:07:41Z")
Oh right sorry, then set it to `none`. ---
**Author:** ![HugoP](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hugop/32/43435_2.png) [@HugoP](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/HugoP)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/11 "2018-12-06T00:19:48Z")
By setting the parameter to none, the allocation will be completely disabled. I just want to disable shard allocation awareness, not the shard allocation. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-shard-allocation-awareness/159621/12 "2019-01-03T00:19:49Z")
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