# Elasticsearch status red and shard percent stop at 85%

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-status-red-and-shard-percent-stop-at-85/194949>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 13, 2019, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-status-red-and-shard-percent-stop-at-85/194949 "2019-08-13T03:43:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Specs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/specs/32/52150_2.png) [@Specs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Specs)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 3:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-status-red-and-shard-percent-stop-at-85/194949/1 "2019-08-13T03:43:18Z")

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My ELK stack stoped yesterday, and I found it was because elasticsearch stoped. And I restart it, but logstash can not write data into it. I checked `/_cat/health`, and got this:

 ![2D91D9FB-956F-4033-923A-19DCF695D3F6](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/c/7c1b852fbf31b14cd7617ddc890d603fe9dd9750.jpeg)

Later I restart it again, the `active_shards_percent_as_number` stop at about 87% again.

How to solve this problem? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![DavidTurner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidturner/32/22453_2.png) [@DavidTurner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/DavidTurner)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-status-red-and-shard-percent-stop-at-85/194949/2 "2019-08-26T13:56:05Z")

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This output shows two initialising shards; when they finish initialising then the active shard percentage will increase, and some more shards will likely start initialising too. With patience, all shards should eventually be assigned. If they are not, and your cluster health is still red, then the following blog post should help:

> **[RED Elasticsearch Cluster? Panic no longer](https://www.elastic.co/blog/red-elasticsearch-cluster-panic-no-longer)**
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> Your cluster is RED - you have unassigned shards and your cluster is not fully operational. Introducing a new Elasticsearch API which will save the day.

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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:** [September 23, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-status-red-and-shard-percent-stop-at-85/194949/3 "2019-09-23T13:56:17Z")

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