# Elasticsearch not indexing while rebalancing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-indexing-while-rebalancing/52526>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 12, 2016, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-indexing-while-rebalancing/52526 "2016-06-12T07:05:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![omercnet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/omercnet/32/10268_2.png) [@omercnet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omercnet)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2016, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-indexing-while-rebalancing/52526/1 "2016-06-12T07:05:09Z")

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Hello,

I have a 6 node cluster on AWS split with allocation awareness to 2 racks.  
I wanted to replace the nodes on 1 rack to increase disk size, so I launched 3 new nodes on that rack and excluded allocation for the departing nodes.

Everything seems to be in order, cluster is GREEN, shards are reallocating, but according to Marvel index rate is 0/s, and logstash is also reporting the pipeline is blocked but no errors from ES.

Any idea what may be causing this?

Omer

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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:** [June 13, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-indexing-while-rebalancing/52526/2 "2016-06-13T23:46:37Z")

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What version are you running?  
Have you made changes to recovery/reallocation?

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**Author:** ![omercnet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/omercnet/32/10268_2.png) [@omercnet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/omercnet)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-indexing-while-rebalancing/52526/3 "2016-06-14T08:30:34Z")

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right, sorry

Using 2.3.3  
`cluster.routing.allocation.node_initial_primaries_recoveries: 5 cluster.routing.allocation.node_concurrent_recoveries: 15 cluster.routing.allocation.cluster_concurrent_rebalance: 20 cluster.routing.allocation.awareness.attributes: rack_id`

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**Author:** ![Maxwell\_Flanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Maxwell\_Flanders](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maxwell_Flanders)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-indexing-while-rebalancing/52526/4 "2016-11-02T00:49:04Z")

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I'm experiencing an identical problem right now...

version 2.2  
node\_concurrent\_recoveries: 30  
cluster\_concurrent\_rebalance: 30  
everything else defaults

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**Author:** ![chenjinyuan87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@chenjinyuan87](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chenjinyuan87)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-indexing-while-rebalancing/52526/5 "2016-11-02T05:01:18Z")

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Maybe it's because the write consistency level:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.4/docs-index\_.html#index-consistency](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.4/docs-index_.html#index-consistency)

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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 5, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-not-indexing-while-rebalancing/52526/6 "2017-07-05T22:07:39Z")

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