# Elastic Search Cluster has unassigned Shards
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/83828
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 27, 2017, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/83828 "2017-04-27T09:20:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@farazkhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/farazkhan)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2017, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/83828/1 "2017-04-27T09:20:14Z")
I ran health check for my cluster. Its showing RED. I see there are plenty of unassigned shards. I tried restarting the but it still wont remove the unassigned shards. I am using ES version 2.4
{
"cluster\_name":"test-clu",
"status":"red",
"timed\_out":false,
"number\_of\_nodes":5,
"number\_of\_data\_nodes":2,
"active\_primary\_shards":355,
"active\_shards":610,
"relocating\_shards":0,
"initializing\_shards":2,
"unassigned\_shards":110,
"delayed\_unassigned\_shards":0,
"number\_of\_pending\_tasks":2,
"number\_of\_in\_flight\_fetch":0,
"task\_max\_waiting\_in\_queue\_millis":20,
"active\_shards\_percent\_as\_number":84.48753462603878
}
Please suggest how can I get my cluster status back to "Green"
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2017, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/83828/2 "2017-04-27T09:40:06Z")
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It can take sometime before everything gets recovered.
Check the pending tasks.
Probably you have to wait.
That said, out of curiosity, why do you have 5 nodes but only 2 data nodes?
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### Author:  [@farazkhan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/farazkhan)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2017, 9:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/83828/3 "2017-04-27T09:57:41Z")
I am not sure why they have used 5 nodes and 2 data nodes. Started working in this recently. I have the below pending tasks.
{
"tasks":[
{
"insert\_order":1395911,
"priority":"HIGH",
"source":"shard-failed ([nedi-170313][3], node[hkXE-ZVWQju-8SCwaZGEWw], [R], v[155530], s[INITIALIZING], a[id=bD2SUxXXSkuUScOmDVrkuw], unassigned\_info[[reason=ALLOCATION\_FAILED], at[2017-04-27T09:50:38.152Z], details[failed to create shard, failure ElasticsearchException[failed to create shard]; nested: NotSerializableExceptionWrapper[file\_system\_exception: /data/nedi-esdata-02/nedi-clu/nodes/0/indices/nedi-170313/3/index: Too many open files]; ]]), message [failed recovery]",
"executing":true,
"time\_in\_queue\_millis":57,
"time\_in\_queue":"57ms"
},
{
"insert\_order":1395912,
"priority":"HIGH",
"source":"cluster\_reroute(async\_shard\_fetch)",
"executing":false,
"time\_in\_queue\_millis":52,
"time\_in\_queue":"52ms"
},
{
"insert\_order":1395913,
"priority":"HIGH",
"source":"shard-failed ([nedi-170309][0], node[hkXE-ZVWQju-8SCwaZGEWw], [R], v[147220], s[INITIALIZING], a[id=aTzdJcJXQrK5M3UR\_-Svug], unassigned\_info[[reason=ALLOCATION\_FAILED], at[2017-04-27T09:50:38.198Z], details[failed to create shard, failure ElasticsearchException[failed to create shard]; nested: NotSerializableExceptionWrapper[file\_system\_exception: /data/nedi-esdata-02/nedi-clu/nodes/0/indices/nedi-170309/0/index: Too many open files]; ]]), message [failed to create shard]",
"executing":false,
"time\_in\_queue\_millis":15,
"time\_in\_queue":"15ms"
}
]
}
Please suggest how can I proceed as I am new to ElasticSearch
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2017, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/83828/4 "2017-04-27T11:14:22Z")
You seem to be running low on ressources.
Either start new nodes, increase open files descriptors or remove non needed indices.
May be you have too much shards per index.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2017, 11:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-cluster-has-unassigned-shards/83828/5 "2017-05-25T11:16:34Z")
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