# How to find failed shards?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-failed-shards/26045>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 22, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-failed-shards/26045 "2015-07-22T06:33:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sunilmchaudhari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sunilmchaudhari/32/9475_2.png) [@sunilmchaudhari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunilmchaudhari)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-failed-shards/26045/1 "2015-07-22T06:33:54Z")

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Hello,  
I am getting error Courier fetch: 10 shard out of 211.

I want to know which are those failed shards/indexes

please guide me on this.

thanks  
Sunil.

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**Author:** ![PatrickKik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/patrickkik/32/619_2.png) [@PatrickKik](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PatrickKik)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-failed-shards/26045/2 "2015-07-22T07:51:03Z")

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The logs should say something like "shard [index\_name][shard\_number] failed".

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**Author:** ![sunilmchaudhari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sunilmchaudhari/32/9475_2.png) [@sunilmchaudhari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sunilmchaudhari)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 8:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-failed-shards/26045/3 "2015-07-22T08:30:04Z")

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Thank you Patrick,  
I found it in elasticsearch logs.

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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:** [July 23, 2015, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-failed-shards/26045/4 "2015-07-23T07:05:38Z")

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You can also use the `_cat` APIs - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat.html)

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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, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-find-failed-shards/26045/5 "2017-07-06T14:15:55Z")

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