# Elasticsearch is still initializing the kibana index : No shard available for org.elasticsearch.action.get.MultiGetShardRequest

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-no-shard-available-for-org-elasticsearch-action-get-multigetshardrequest/47838>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 19, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-no-shard-available-for-org-elasticsearch-action-get-multigetshardrequest/47838 "2016-04-19T20:59:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![kbhaskar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@kbhaskar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kbhaskar)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-no-shard-available-for-org-elasticsearch-action-get-multigetshardrequest/47838/1 "2016-04-19T20:59:57Z")

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Elastic Search is installed and has been working. However, Kibana now throws an exception. The cluster health itself is in healthy state. However, I keep getting the "Elasticsearch is still initializing the kibana index." occasionally showing a call stack that looks like below:

Error: unhandled courier request error: Request to Elasticsearch failed: {"\_index":".kibana","\_type":"config","\_id":"4.4.2","error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"no\_shard\_available\_action\_exception","reason":"No shard available for [org.elasticsearch.action.get.MultiGetShardRequest@65b48be4]"}],"type":"no\_shard\_available\_action\_exception","reason":"No shard available for [org.elasticsearch.action.get.MultiGetShardRequest@65d40df5]"}}

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Fleming](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joe_fleming/32/3561_2.png) [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 8:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-no-shard-available-for-org-elasticsearch-action-get-multigetshardrequest/47838/2 "2016-04-20T20:35:56Z")

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What version of Elasticsearch are you using?

The reason I ask is the it's expecting 2.2.0 or higher, but perhaps there's an issue we don't know about with Kibana 4.4 and ES 2.3, if that's what you're running, for example.

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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, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-no-shard-available-for-org-elasticsearch-action-get-multigetshardrequest/47838/3 "2017-07-06T13:55:33Z")

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