# Elasticsearch health shows RED
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-shows-red/150695
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 2, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-shows-red/150695 "2018-10-02T12:17:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@anuragh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anuragh)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-shows-red/150695/1 "2018-10-02T12:17:23Z")
Currently ES version is 5.4.3 and we are planning to upgrade to latest version.
But before doing this i need to make the cluster GREEN.Please help
{"cluster\_name":"TestCluster",
"status":"red",
"timed\_out":false,
"number\_of\_nodes":5,
"number\_of\_data\_nodes":4,
"active\_primary\_shards":1662,
"active\_shards":1914,"relocating\_shards":0,"initializing\_shards":0,
"unassigned\_shards":3,
"delayed\_unassigned\_shards":0,
"number\_of\_pending\_tasks":0,
"number\_of\_in\_flight\_fetch":0,
"task\_max\_waiting\_in\_queue\_millis":0,
"active\_shards\_percent\_as\_number":99.8435054773083}
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### Author:  [@stuayre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stuayre)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-shows-red/150695/2 "2018-10-02T12:27:00Z")
you need to assign the 3 unassigned shards to a node in your cluster
do you have enough free space on your nodes to assign it?
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### Author:  [@anuragh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anuragh)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-shows-red/150695/3 "2018-10-02T12:59:16Z")
I have 2TB of data.How to assign the unassigned shards?
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### Author:  [@anuragh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anuragh)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-shows-red/150695/4 "2018-10-02T12:59:36Z")
i have 2TB storage free space
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### Author:  [@stuayre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stuayre)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-shows-red/150695/5 "2018-10-02T13:50:12Z")
have a look at \_cluster/reroute
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.4/cluster-reroute.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.4/cluster-reroute.html)
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### Author:  [@anuragh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anuragh)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-shows-red/150695/6 "2018-10-02T14:11:51Z")
Thank you .I deleted the corrupted files and restarted the nodes.Now Health shows GREEN.
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### Author:  [@stuayre](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stuayre)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-shows-red/150695/7 "2018-10-02T14:37:04Z")
Glad you got it sorted! 👍
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-shows-red/150695/8 "2018-10-30T14:37:06Z")
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