Elasticsearch is still initializing the kibana index... Trying again in 2.5 second

[Burga]

Hi , I'm getting this error in Kibana

Elasticsearch is still initializing the kibana index... Trying again in 2.5 second

and the .kibana index is the only index in red mode

any suggestions without losing all data ?

ELK stand alone server :

-bash-4.1# curl http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty
{
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "status" : "red",
  "timed_out" : false,
  "number_of_nodes" : 1,
  "number_of_data_nodes" : 1,
  "active_primary_shards" : 1770,
  "active_shards" : 1770,
  "relocating_shards" : 0,
  "initializing_shards" : 0,
  "unassigned_shards" : 1771,
  "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" : 49.985879695001415
}

please assist .

Best Regards.

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

What is the output from _cat/indices/kibana*?v?

[Burga]

-bash-4.1# curl 'localhost:9200/_cat/indices/.kibana*?v'
health status index   pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
red    open   .kibana   1   0

[Burga]

any Ideas ?

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

Unfortunately you have a single node with no replica, so unless you have a backup of the Kibana index, you have likely lost it.

You have nearly 1800 shards on a single node. That is not good at all and is causing you problems with cluster stability and all those unassigned shards. You need to look at reducing that shard count to at least a third of the current size.

[Burga]

Thank you !!!