# Elasticsearch 0.90.0: UnavailableShardsException

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-90-0-unavailableshardsexception/20264>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 15, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-90-0-unavailableshardsexception/20264 "2014-10-15T12:41:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Prakhar\_Mishra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Prakhar\_Mishra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prakhar_Mishra)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2014, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-90-0-unavailableshardsexception/20264/1 "2014-10-15T12:41:38Z")

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Hello everyone,

I am using _Elasticsearch 0.90.0_. When I am trying to put a json doc in  
some index, I am getting an exception named _UnavailableShardsException_. I  
don't have any idea why I am getting this exception. I tried:

_curl -v -XPUT "[http://localhost:9200/index-15-10-14/type-15-10-14/123](http://localhost:9200/index-15-10-14/type-15-10-14/123)" -d  
"{}"_

and what I am getting is this:

{"error":"UnavailableShardsException[[index-15-10-14][4] [2] shardIt, [0]  
active : Timeout waiting for [1m], request: index  
{[index-15-10-14][type-15-10-14][123], source[{}]}]","status":503}

I also tried to change no. of replicas of the index, as follows:

_curl -v -XPUT "[http://localhost:9200/index-15-10-14/\_settings?pretty](http://localhost:9200/index-15-10-14/_settings?pretty)" -d  
'{_

- "index": {\*
- "number\_of\_replicas": 0\*
- }\*  
_}_  
_'_  
but, no luck. When I am using elasticsearch-head plugin to view it, it  
shows:

[https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0EaM3-8qsJY/VD5q\_A1TJfI/AAAAAAAAAFM/yq\_IBDYjwU4/s1600/esissue.PNG](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-0EaM3-8qsJY/VD5q_A1TJfI/AAAAAAAAAFM/yq_IBDYjwU4/s1600/esissue.PNG)  
Please help!

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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, 12:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-0-90-0-unavailableshardsexception/20264/2 "2017-07-06T00:56:05Z")

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