# Doubt about indice

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/doubt-about-indice/25518>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 14, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/doubt-about-indice/25518 "2015-07-14T12:52:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![fabioebner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a3d4f5/32.png) [@fabioebner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fabioebner)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/doubt-about-indice/25518/1 "2015-07-14T12:52:14Z")

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I download the elastic 1.6  
unzip  
change node name, cluster name, and set discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false.

then i create one indice and input 2 docs inside..

so why when i look my indice he still yellow and dont green?

tks

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**Author:** ![colings86](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/colings86/32/44960_2.png) [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/doubt-about-indice/25518/2 "2015-07-14T13:11:30Z")

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Yellow status means that you have all primary shards assigned but not all replicas have been assigned. This will be the status if you are running a single node with default index settings since, by default, elasticsearch will set `index.number_of_replicas` to 1. The primary shards will be assigned to your node but the replicas cannot as replica shards cannot be on the same node as their primary. Yellow status is not a problem is this scenario, but if you was fault tolerance in your cluster you will need to add another node. More information on cluster health can be found here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/\_cluster\_health.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/_cluster_health.html)

You can also get your cluster to green status by updating the indices settings to set `index.number_of_replicas` to `0`. More information on doing that here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-update-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-update-settings.html)

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 12:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/doubt-about-indice/25518/3 "2017-07-06T00:01:34Z")

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