# Elasticsearch-master election is taking too long (+30mins)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-master-election-is-taking-too-long-30mins/204488>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 21, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-master-election-is-taking-too-long-30mins/204488 "2019-10-21T14:01:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-master-election-is-taking-too-long-30mins/204488/25 "2019-11-10T17:23:23Z")

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Hi @DavidTurner,

Thanks for the assistance.  
In our case the old data(cluster) don`t exist anymore so it is safe to run this as it is.

Created another topic for `ELK Resource requirements`:

> [@ELK resource requirements](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-resource-requirements/207215):
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> Hi everyone, We are running and ELK 7.1 deployment on IKS (IBMCloud Kubernetes Service). Our setup is the following: Infrastructure: -IKS Cluster running Kubernetes 1.14.8\_1536 -2x worker nodes of type Virtual Shared b2c.4x16 - 4vCPUs , 16GB RAM -3x 20GB BlockStorage with 1000 IOPS - for the elastic-master nodes -2x1000GB BlockStorage with 1000 IOPS - for the elastic-data nodes ELK 7.1 Deployment with HelmCharts main resource settings: -3x elastic-master nodes resources: requests: …

Can you please take a look on it when you have some time?

Thank you,  
Zoltan

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