# Health status red: shards?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/health-status-red-shards/53470>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 21, 2016, 9:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/health-status-red-shards/53470 "2016-06-21T09:09:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![brayndasilva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@brayndasilva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brayndasilva)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 9:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/health-status-red-shards/53470/1 "2016-06-21T09:09:48Z")

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When I opened up Kibana and noticed "No results found" I started looking into why there was no data for me to work with.

I noticed that my Elasticsearch status is red, but why?

```
brayn@logging:~$ curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty
{
  "cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
  "status" : "red",
  "timed_out" : false,
  "number_of_nodes" : 1,
  "number_of_data_nodes" : 1,
  "active_primary_shards" : 1,
  "active_shards" : 1,
  "relocating_shards" : 0,
  "initializing_shards" : 4,
  "unassigned_shards" : 377,
  "delayed_unassigned_shards" : 0,
  "number_of_pending_tasks" : 0,
  "number_of_in_flight_fetch" : 0,
  "task_max_waiting_in_queue_millis" : 0,
  "active_shards_percent_as_number" : 0.2617801047120419
}
```

After enabling shard reallocation it managed to reduce the amount of unassigned and initializing shards to:

```
initializing_shards" : 0,
unassigned_shards" : 201,

```

I also deleted some very old data to possibly clear up some space, but it still gives me a red status. Am I missing something?

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**Author:** ![brayndasilva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@brayndasilva](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brayndasilva)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/health-status-red-shards/53470/2 "2016-06-22T07:09:01Z")

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Noticed some indices with red health while others were yellow. They were from a month ago and of no importance so I deleted them and data is coming in again.

Elasticsearch health is yellow now

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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, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/health-status-red-shards/53470/3 "2017-07-05T22:41:30Z")

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