Force shards rebalance when new empty node has joined

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It is similar to the http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25135869/how-to-rebalance-shard-elasticsearch question.

Let's assume I have 5 ES data nodes, 11 indexes with replica=2. When I add an extra data node it remains empty. Is there a way to automatically rebalance all shards and fill in 6th node effectively?

I didn't find any proper answer except creating your own script which will calculate weights, amount of nodes and run _cluster/reroute on its own. I believe there should be possibility to rebalance cluster without 3rd party scripts.

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The only reason it would do that is if allocation has been disabled.
Did you check cluster settings?

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cluster.routing.rebalance.enable set to all

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What else is in cluster settings, there's nothing in there or....?

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thanks. my bad. didn't notice
"exclude" : {
"_host" : "10.1.57.8"
}

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Quick question, how to remove exclude properly? Set it to an empty string?

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Yeah, you can't remove a setting in <5.0 unfortunately :frowning:
Well you can, but needs a restart.

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thanks a lot.