# Elasticsearch always leaves unassigned shards on startup

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-always-leaves-unassigned-shards-on-startup/17594>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 19, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-always-leaves-unassigned-shards-on-startup/17594 "2014-05-19T16:07:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![f13ts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/13edae/32.png) [@f13ts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/f13ts)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-always-leaves-unassigned-shards-on-startup/17594/1 "2014-05-19T16:07:39Z")

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Hi,

Just getting started with ES. I'm integrating it into my Play! 2  
application using the scalastic scala wrapper for the java API.

I can happily index & retrieve documents, but ONLY if I delete and recreate  
my index every time the application starts, which is pretty useless.

I have a Gist showing how I start and stop a node when my application boots  
up/shuts down:

> <https://gist.github.com/anonymous/cb60c8b5ad9d777c31ec>

and here is what my Elasticsearch-head page looks like after starting up  
the app without recreating the index:

[http://imgur.com/eA6AF4u](http://imgur.com/eA6AF4u)

Which shows yellow status, however curl -XGET  
'[http://localhost:9200/\_cluster/health](http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health) returns RED status, and that's also  
what my application reports!

Many thanks for any help/advice,

A

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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, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-always-leaves-unassigned-shards-on-startup/17594/2 "2017-07-06T01:28:26Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:28am UTC