# Elasticsearch red status unassgined shards **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 6, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-red-status-unassgined-shards/12683 "2013-07-06T04:43:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Iman\_Khosravi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Iman\_Khosravi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Iman_Khosravi)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-red-status-unassgined-shards/12683/1 "2013-07-06T04:43:44Z")
Hi all i have a single ES installation which is ElasticSearch ver.20.6 today i saw it's not working correctly and i the cluster status is Red.i see some unassigned shards in my ES head, too. searching around i found that there is a problem when installing another ES on a same LAN, but i don't understand why. yesterday i installed another app which use elasticsearch as DB. the only common thing that they have is there are installed on the same broadcast domain. anyway, is the unassigned shards related to my other installation? if yes how could i remove them to make elasticsearch functional again. { cluster\_name: Mycluster status: red timed\_out: false number\_of\_nodes: 1 number\_of\_data\_nodes: 1 active\_primary\_shards: 85 active\_shards: 85 relocating\_shards: 0 initializing\_shards: 0 unassigned\_shards: 95 } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![Iman\_Khosravi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Iman\_Khosravi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Iman_Khosravi)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-red-status-unassgined-shards/12683/2 "2013-07-06T09:59:35Z")
any idea? On Saturday, July 6, 2013 9:13:44 AM UTC+4:30, Iman Khosravi wrote: > Hi all > i have a single ES installation which is Elasticsearch ver.20.6 > today i saw it's not working correctly and i the cluster status is Red.i > see some unassigned shards in my ES head, too. > searching around i found that there is a problem when installing another > ES on a same LAN, but i don't understand why. > yesterday i installed another app which use elasticsearch as DB. the only > common thing that they have is there are installed on the same broadcast > domain. > > anyway, is the unassigned shards related to my other installation? > if yes how could i remove them to make elasticsearch functional again. > > { > cluster\_name: Mycluster > status: red > timed\_out: false > number\_of\_nodes: 1 > number\_of\_data\_nodes: 1 > active\_primary\_shards: 85 > active\_shards: 85 > relocating\_shards: 0 > initializing\_shards: 0 > unassigned\_shards: 95 > } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-red-status-unassgined-shards/12683/3 "2013-07-07T16:17:23Z")
Hey, the information you provided is quite sparse. Is there anything in the log files? What do you mean with "problem installing another ES on the same LAN" - did the two elasticsearch instances form a cluster, so a lot of your data was relocated to the second node, which then was removed and may have lead to a data loss (only speculation here, but might have been happened). Not too much to tell without more infos. Apart from that, please dont reply to your own thread, especially if it is weekend, you should not expect instant replies 🙂 --Alex On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Iman Khosravi [imannapoleon@gmail.com](mailto:imannapoleon@gmail.com)wrote: > any idea? > > On Saturday, July 6, 2013 9:13:44 AM UTC+4:30, Iman Khosravi wrote: > > > Hi all > > i have a single ES installation which is Elasticsearch ver.20.6 > > today i saw it's not working correctly and i the cluster status is Red.i > > see some unassigned shards in my ES head, too. > > searching around i found that there is a problem when installing another > > ES on a same LAN, but i don't understand why. > > yesterday i installed another app which use elasticsearch as DB. the only > > common thing that they have is there are installed on the same broadcast > > domain. > > > > anyway, is the unassigned shards related to my other installation? > > if yes how could i remove them to make elasticsearch functional again. > > > > { > > cluster\_name: Mycluster > > status: red > > timed\_out: false > > number\_of\_nodes: 1 > > number\_of\_data\_nodes: 1 > > active\_primary\_shards: 85 > > active\_shards: 85 > > relocating\_shards: 0 > > initializing\_shards: 0 > > unassigned\_shards: 95 > > } > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/groups/opt\_out](https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out). ---
**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, 2:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-red-status-unassgined-shards/12683/4 "2017-07-06T02:27:49Z")