# How to check % of completion status of initialising/relocating/recovering shard?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-of-completion-status-of-initialising-relocating-recovering-shard/1214>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 23, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-of-completion-status-of-initialising-relocating-recovering-shard/1214 "2015-05-23T20:43:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2015, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-of-completion-status-of-initialising-relocating-recovering-shard/1214/1 "2015-05-23T20:43:41Z")

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So i have a fairly big cluster each shard is about 9gb in size, but I'm not sure which of the stats tell you how much time is left to transfer the shard etc...

It seems to take for ever, just wondering how I can check if it's almost done transfer or what...

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-of-completion-status-of-initialising-relocating-recovering-shard/1214/2 "2015-05-24T02:18:47Z")

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The `_cat/recovery` endpoint will show you, but it's just a %, there is no time estimation.

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**Author:** ![javadevmtl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/javadevmtl/32/45613_2.png) [@javadevmtl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javadevmtl)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2015, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-of-completion-status-of-initialising-relocating-recovering-shard/1214/3 "2015-05-24T15:42:48Z")

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Thanks!

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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 6, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-check-of-completion-status-of-initialising-relocating-recovering-shard/1214/4 "2017-07-06T00:12:10Z")

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