# How to see how many times a shard has failed to be allocated currently

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-see-how-many-times-a-shard-has-failed-to-be-allocated-currently/267592>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 18, 2021, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-see-how-many-times-a-shard-has-failed-to-be-allocated-currently/267592 "2021-03-18T03:13:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![asasas234](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/asasas234/32/113152_2.png) [@asasas234](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asasas234)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-see-how-many-times-a-shard-has-failed-to-be-allocated-currently/267592/1 "2021-03-18T03:13:48Z")

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I want to see how many times a shard has failed to be allocated, so I can speculate whether the unsuccessful allocation of previous shards is related to the index.allocation.max\_retries limit being reached.

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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:** [April 15, 2021, 3:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-see-how-many-times-a-shard-has-failed-to-be-allocated-currently/267592/2 "2021-04-15T03:14:42Z")

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