# Elasticseach index problem - closing randomly
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticseach-index-problem-closing-randomly/143917
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 10, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticseach-index-problem-closing-randomly/143917 "2018-08-10T18:03:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Sanj\_Gunetileke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sanj_Gunetileke)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticseach-index-problem-closing-randomly/143917/1 "2018-08-10T18:03:28Z")
Hello,
I have a node with 3 indexes and each index has 3 shards. Total disk usage is about 9GB.
OS: Windows server 2016 (virtual machine)
ES: 6.2.4
memory: 16GB
HD: 250GB.
Virusscanner: mcafee.
Some indexes close by itself at random times. I have to open these indexes by using the open command. Is there a reason why the indexes close by itself.
Is there a setting I can use to prevent the indexes closing?
Thanks in advance.
Sanj
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticseach-index-problem-closing-randomly/143917/2 "2018-08-10T20:26:52Z")
You probably have something which runs and close the indices.
May be you are using curator or something?
Or someone has access to your cluster?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticseach-index-problem-closing-randomly/143917/3 "2018-08-10T20:49:35Z")
There is no way Elasticsearch can just close an index, or an index can just close itself, someone has to request it.
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### Author:  [@Sanj\_Gunetileke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sanj_Gunetileke)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticseach-index-problem-closing-randomly/143917/4 "2018-08-10T21:50:42Z")
Is there a log setting to give more explanation of who is sending the close command? Or increase the log detail level?
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### Author:  [@Sanj\_Gunetileke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sanj_Gunetileke)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2018, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticseach-index-problem-closing-randomly/143917/5 "2018-08-10T21:51:57Z")
Is there a setting to disable index closing?
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### Author:  [@Sanj\_Gunetileke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sanj_Gunetileke)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticseach-index-problem-closing-randomly/143917/6 "2018-08-14T21:37:38Z")
I got around this by setting the index close option to false. So the index will never close. This has helped me.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticseach-index-problem-closing-randomly/143917/7 "2018-09-11T21:37:53Z")
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