# Elasticsearch Cluster status is Yellow

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-status-is-yellow/100589>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 14, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-status-is-yellow/100589 "2017-09-14T18:44:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-status-is-yellow/100589/2 "2017-09-14T19:17:19Z")

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The Yellow status means that there is a risk of losing data if something goes wrong with your shards.

To get it green you should add another node to your cluster

This answer was taken from [another post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-status-is-yellow-how-to-up-green/81765/2)

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