# Elasticsearch health status is yellow. How to up Green?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-status-is-yellow-how-to-up-green/81765>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 10, 2017, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-status-is-yellow-how-to-up-green/81765 "2017-04-10T08:05:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![kab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kab](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kab)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-health-status-is-yellow-how-to-up-green/81765/2 "2017-04-10T08:11:33Z")

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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 at least have another node. I mean you should create a cluster.

Kab,

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