# Getting "1 of 2 shards failed"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-1-of-2-shards-failed/229781>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 25, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-1-of-2-shards-failed/229781 "2020-04-25T18:43:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tbhaxor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbhaxor/32/63588_2.png) [@tbhaxor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbhaxor)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-1-of-2-shards-failed/229781/1 "2020-04-25T18:43:07Z")

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When i opened the dashboard on kibana, I am getting

```auto
1 of 2 shards failed
The data you are seeing might be incomplete or wrong.

```

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**Author:** ![thomasneirynck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/thomasneirynck/32/23313_2.png) [@thomasneirynck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thomasneirynck)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-1-of-2-shards-failed/229781/2 "2020-04-27T16:04:57Z")

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not sure what that can be from the info provided.

Are your elasticsearch clusters running? Do the individual visualizations on the dashboard run separately, or do they also crash with the same message?

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**Author:** ![tbhaxor](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tbhaxor/32/63588_2.png) [@tbhaxor](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tbhaxor)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-1-of-2-shards-failed/229781/3 "2020-04-27T18:06:30Z")

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Elasticsearch is running and cluster is healthy.

Also visualization are not working, I am getting two error

1. [esaggs] \> "field" is a required parameter
2. Saved "field" parameter is now invalid. Please select a new field.

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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:** [May 25, 2020, 6:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-1-of-2-shards-failed/229781/4 "2020-05-25T18:06:33Z")

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