# Elasticsearch cluster red state

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-red-state/332722>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [May 6, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-red-state/332722 "2023-05-06T19:33:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mark\_twin75](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_twin75/32/118222_2.png) [@mark\_twin75](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mark_twin75)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 7:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-red-state/332722/1 "2023-05-06T19:33:54Z")

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Hello all,

I am trying to reset elastic user password , while resting password with **bin/elasticsearch-reset-password -u elastic** command ,my cluster status changed from yellow state to red state . all master nodes are up and running and joined in cluster. kindly check below log ,and suggest me any solution.

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**[2023-05-06T19:20:43,954][INFO][o.e.x.s.a.RealmsAuthenticator] [master2] Authentication of [elastic] was terminated by realm [reserved] - failed to authenticate user [elastic]**
**[2023-05-06T19:21:05,109][INFO][o.e.x.s.a.f.FileUserPasswdStore] [master2] users file [/etc/elasticsearch/users] changed. updating users...**
**[2023-05-06T19:21:05,112][INFO][o.e.x.s.a.f.FileUserRolesStore] [master2] users roles file [/etc/elasticsearch/users_roles] changed. updating users roles...**
**[2023-05-06T19:21:09,058][INFO][o.e.x.s.s.SecurityIndexManager] [master2] security index does not exist, creating [.security-7] with alias [.security]**
**[2023-05-06T19:21:09,128][INFO][o.e.c.m.MetadataCreateIndexService] [master2] [.security-7] creating index, cause [api], templates [], shards [1]/[0]**
**[2023-05-06T19:21:09,143][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService] [master2] current.health="RED" message="Cluster health status changed from [YELLOW] to [RED] (reason: [index [.security-7] created])." previous.health="YELLOW" reason="index [.security-7] created"**
**[2023-05-06T19:21:45,130][INFO][o.e.x.s.a.f.FileUserPasswdStore] [master2] users file [/etc/elasticsearch/users] changed. updating users...**
**[2023-05-06T19:21:45,131][INFO][o.e.x.s.a.f.FileUserRolesStore] [master2] users roles file [/etc/elasticsearch/users_roles] changed. updating users roles...
ers roles...
[2023-05-06T19:22:39,342][WARN][r.suppressed] [master2] path: /_security/user/elastic/_password, params: {pretty=, username=elastic}
org.elasticsearch.action.UnavailableShardsException: [.security-7][0] [1] shardIt, [0] active : Timeout waiting for [1m], request: indices:data/write/update
        at org.elasticsearch.action.support.single.instance.TransportInstanceSingleOperationAction$AsyncSingleAction.retry(TransportInstanceSingleOperationAction.java:226) ~[elasticsearch-8.7.1.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.action.support.single.instance.TransportInstanceSingleOperationAction$AsyncSingleAction.doStart(TransportInstanceSingleOperationAction.java:181) ~[elasticsearch-8.7.1.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.action.support.single.instance.TransportInstanceSingleOperationAction$AsyncSingleAction$2.onTimeout(TransportInstanceSingleOperationAction.java:249) ~[elasticsearch-8.7.1.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateObserver$ContextPreservingListener.onTimeout(ClusterStateObserver.java:326) ~[elasticsearch-8.7.1.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterStateObserver$ObserverClusterStateListener.onTimeout(ClusterStateObserver.java:264) ~[elasticsearch-8.7.1.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterApplierService$NotifyTimeout.run(ClusterApplierService.java:643) ~[elasticsearch-8.7.1.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingRunnable.run(ThreadContext.java:891) ~[elasticsearch-8.7.1.jar:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1144) ~[?:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:642) ~[?:?]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1623) ~[?:?]
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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2023, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-red-state/332722/2 "2023-05-08T03:31:46Z")

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Did you manually delete the security indices at all?

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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:** [June 5, 2023, 3:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-red-state/332722/3 "2023-06-05T03:32:03Z")

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