# Elasticsearch Replica Shards Unassigned?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-replica-shards-unassigned/39308>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 15, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-replica-shards-unassigned/39308 "2016-01-15T08:30:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul.mason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4da419/32.png) [@paul.mason](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/paul.mason)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-replica-shards-unassigned/39308/1 "2016-01-15T08:30:04Z")

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Hi

We recently set up Elasticsearch, and art the moment are running two nodes.

All seemed to be working fine initially, but I noticed today that some of the shards are unassigned:-

logstash-2016.01.15 4 r UNASSIGNED  
logstash-2016.01.15 2 r UNASSIGNED  
logstash-2016.01.15 0 r UNASSIGNED  
topbeat-2016.01.15 4 r UNASSIGNED  
topbeat-2016.01.15 2 r UNASSIGNED

I've had a look in the logs on the Elasticsearch servers and cannot see any errors that would give an indication as to why this is happening?

I'd appreciate any advice on how to start diagnosing what the issue might be.

Thanks  
Paul

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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, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-replica-shards-unassigned/39308/2 "2017-07-05T23:24:15Z")

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