# Elasticsearch red and green statuses

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-red-and-green-statuses/1406>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 27, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-red-and-green-statuses/1406 "2015-05-27T15:40:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![achechen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@achechen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/achechen)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-red-and-green-statuses/1406/1 "2015-05-27T15:40:26Z")

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Hi there,

just a stupid question I cannot find an answer to in the documentation (probably very obvious thing, but still). Can a green or red status cluster still receive data, run queries and create new indexes?

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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:** [May 28, 2015, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-red-and-green-statuses/1406/2 "2015-05-28T09:08:39Z")

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Green gives you full access to the cluster.  
Yellow also gives you full access as well.  
Red will go to read only mode. See [the docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-discovery-zen.html#no-master-block) for more.

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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 6, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-red-and-green-statuses/1406/3 "2017-07-06T00:11:24Z")

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