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

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-trying-again-in-2-5-second/245701>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-trying-again-in-2-5-second/245701 "2020-08-20T04:39:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Burga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Burga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Burga)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-trying-again-in-2-5-second/245701/1 "2020-08-20T04:39:30Z")

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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 :

```auto

-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.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-trying-again-in-2-5-second/245701/2 "2020-08-20T05:03:44Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Burga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Burga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Burga)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-trying-again-in-2-5-second/245701/3 "2020-08-20T06:44:00Z")

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```auto
-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

```

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**Author:** ![Burga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Burga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Burga)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-trying-again-in-2-5-second/245701/4 "2020-08-20T10:26:58Z")

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any Ideas ?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-trying-again-in-2-5-second/245701/5 "2020-08-21T01:09:22Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Burga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@Burga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Burga)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-trying-again-in-2-5-second/245701/6 "2020-08-25T13:03:19Z")

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Thank you !!!

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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:** [September 22, 2020, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-is-still-initializing-the-kibana-index-trying-again-in-2-5-second/245701/7 "2020-09-22T13:03:19Z")

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