# Elasticsearch not assigning replica shards and not reallocating
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-assigning-replica-shards-and-not-reallocating/21072
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 4, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-assigning-replica-shards-and-not-reallocating/21072 "2014-12-04T02:46:58Z")
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Schepens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sebastian_Schepens)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-assigning-replica-shards-and-not-reallocating/21072/1 "2014-12-04T02:46:58Z")
I have an issue with elasticsearch version 1.4.1, i had indexes without
replicas and i recently i added 1 replica to all indexes and they are not
getting allocated.
I also have an issue when using cluster setting to exclude a node from
allocation, it just doesnt work, data is not moved from the node, this used
to work on 1.3.2.
I don't know what could be wrong and i dont see anything meaningful in logs.
Can someone help me?
Thanks,
Sebastian
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-assigning-replica-shards-and-not-reallocating/21072/2 "2014-12-04T03:59:56Z")
How many nodes do you have?
Can you provide the command you are sending ES to set the exclude?
On 4 December 2014 at 13:46, Sebastián Schepens \<
[sebastian.schepens@mercadolibre.com](mailto:sebastian.schepens@mercadolibre.com)\> wrote:
> I have an issue with elasticsearch version 1.4.1, i had indexes without
> replicas and i recently i added 1 replica to all indexes and they are not
> getting allocated.
> I also have an issue when using cluster setting to exclude a node from
> allocation, it just doesnt work, data is not moved from the node, this used
> to work on 1.3.2.
>
> I don't know what could be wrong and i dont see anything meaningful in
> logs.
>
> Can someone help me?
>
> Thanks,
> Sebastian
>
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Schepens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sebastian_Schepens)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-assigning-replica-shards-and-not-reallocating/21072/3 "2014-12-04T13:27:07Z")
I have 25 nodes and 12 java clients that bulk index.
This is the command i'm using:
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/\_cluster/settings -d '{
"transient" : {
"cluster.routing.allocation.exclude.\_host" : "HOST"
}
}'
Got any idea why replica shards are not being allocated?
This is my config file:
indices.fielddata.cache.size: 30%
indices.fielddata.cache.expire: 10m
indices.breaker.fielddata.limit: 60%
cluster.name: elasticsearch
action.auto\_create\_index: true
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold\_enabled: true
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.low: .85
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.high: .90
node.name: "##HOSTNAME##"
node.master: false
node.data: true
node.client: false
index.number\_of\_shards: 5
index.number\_of\_replicas: 1
bootstrap.mlockall: true
transport.tcp.compress: true
http.port: 8080
gateway.type: local
gateway.recover\_after\_nodes: 2
gateway.recover\_after\_time: 1m
gateway.expected\_nodes: ##SERVERS\_COUNT##
cluster.routing.allocation.node\_initial\_primaries\_recoveries: 20
cluster.routing.allocation.node\_concurrent\_recoveries: 10
indices.recovery.max\_bytes\_per\_sec: 50mb
indices.recovery.concurrent\_streams: 5
discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 2
discovery.zen.ping.timeout: 10s
discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ##MASTER\_NODES##
processors: 16
index.mapper.dynamic: true
action.disable\_delete\_all\_indices: true
index.refresh\_internal: 10s
cluster.routing.allocation.cluster\_concurrent\_rebalance: 20
script.disable\_dynamic: true
http.compression: true
Thanks,
Sebastian
On Thursday, December 4, 2014 1:00:24 AM UTC-3, Mark Walkom wrote:
> How many nodes do you have?
>
> Can you provide the command you are sending ES to set the exclude?
>
> On 4 December 2014 at 13:46, Sebastián Schepens \<
> [sebastian...@mercadolibre.com](mailto:sebastian...@mercadolibre.com) \\> wrote:
>
> > I have an issue with elasticsearch version 1.4.1, i had indexes without
> > replicas and i recently i added 1 replica to all indexes and they are not
> > getting allocated.
> > I also have an issue when using cluster setting to exclude a node from
> > allocation, it just doesnt work, data is not moved from the node, this used
> > to work on 1.3.2.
> >
> > I don't know what could be wrong and i dont see anything meaningful in
> > logs.
> >
> > Can someone help me?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sebastian
> >
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### Author:  [@Sebastian\_Schepens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sebastian_Schepens)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-assigning-replica-shards-and-not-reallocating/21072/4 "2014-12-04T13:42:32Z")
Nevermind, i think i fixed it, it seems somewhere between 1.3.2 and 1.4.0
config settingts for watermark changed, i changed this:
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.low: 85%
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.high: 90%
for:
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.low: 85%
cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.high: 90%
And it worked!
On Thursday, December 4, 2014 10:27:07 AM UTC-3, Sebastián Schepens wrote:
> I have 25 nodes and 12 java clients that bulk index.
> This is the command i'm using:
>
> curl -XPUT localhost:9200/\_cluster/settings -d '{
> "transient" : {
> "cluster.routing.allocation.exclude.\_host" : "HOST"
> }
> }'
>
> Got any idea why replica shards are not being allocated?
>
> This is my config file:
> indices.fielddata.cache.size: 30%
> indices.fielddata.cache.expire: 10m
> indices.breaker.fielddata.limit: 60%
>
> cluster.name: elasticsearch
> action.auto\_create\_index: true
>
> cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold\_enabled: true
> cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.low: .85
> cluster.routing.allocation.disk.watermark.high: .90
>
> node.name: "##HOSTNAME##"
> node.master: false
> node.data: true
> node.client: false
>
> index.number\_of\_shards: 5
> index.number\_of\_replicas: 1
>
> bootstrap.mlockall: true
>
> transport.tcp.compress: true
> http.port: 8080
>
> gateway.type: local
> gateway.recover\_after\_nodes: 2
> gateway.recover\_after\_time: 1m
> gateway.expected\_nodes: ##SERVERS\_COUNT##
>
> cluster.routing.allocation.node\_initial\_primaries\_recoveries: 20
> cluster.routing.allocation.node\_concurrent\_recoveries: 10
> indices.recovery.max\_bytes\_per\_sec: 50mb
> indices.recovery.concurrent\_streams: 5
>
> discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 2
> discovery.zen.ping.timeout: 10s
> discovery.zen.ping.multicast.enabled: false
> discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ##MASTER\_NODES##
>
> processors: 16
> index.mapper.dynamic: true
> action.disable\_delete\_all\_indices: true
> index.refresh\_internal: 10s
> cluster.routing.allocation.cluster\_concurrent\_rebalance: 20
> script.disable\_dynamic: true
> http.compression: true
>
> Thanks,
> Sebastian
>
> On Thursday, December 4, 2014 1:00:24 AM UTC-3, Mark Walkom wrote:
>
> > How many nodes do you have?
> >
> > Can you provide the command you are sending ES to set the exclude?
> >
> > On 4 December 2014 at 13:46, Sebastián Schepens \<
> > [sebastian...@mercadolibre.com](mailto:sebastian...@mercadolibre.com)\> wrote:
> >
> > > I have an issue with elasticsearch version 1.4.1, i had indexes without
> > > replicas and i recently i added 1 replica to all indexes and they are not
> > > getting allocated.
> > > I also have an issue when using cluster setting to exclude a node from
> > > allocation, it just doesnt work, data is not moved from the node, this used
> > > to work on 1.3.2.
> > >
> > > I don't know what could be wrong and i dont see anything meaningful in
> > > logs.
> > >
> > > Can someone help me?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sebastian
> > >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-assigning-replica-shards-and-not-reallocating/21072/5 "2017-07-06T00:45:56Z")