I keep getting cluster health status of Yellow

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
1

So today is the first day I started testing with the cluster health api and
I am constantly getting yellow which based on the documentation indicates
replicas have not been allocated.
My build is from master and I'm testing with one local instance running. Any
ideas on what could be causing this?

My config is pretty basic:

cluster:
name: Test

node:
data: true

http:
enabled: true

gateway:
type: fs
fs:
location: /tmp/elasticsearch/data/cluster
index :
number_of_shards : 5
number_of_replicas : 4
analysis :
analyzer :
standard :
type : standard

store:
type: memory
memory:
cache_size: 100m
buffer_size: 10k

Thanks

2

Here's my understanding:

If you don't have enough machines to host all your replicas, then yes, your status will be yellow.

You'd need 5 running instances to be green.

Andrew

On 29/06/2010, at 11:04 AM, Samuel Doyle wrote:

So today is the first day I started testing with the cluster health api and I am constantly getting yellow which based on the documentation indicates replicas have not been allocated.
My build is from master and I'm testing with one local instance running. Any ideas on what could be causing this?

My config is pretty basic:

cluster:
name: Test

node:
data: true

http:
enabled: true

gateway:
type: fs
fs:
location: /tmp/elasticsearch/data/cluster
index :
number_of_shards : 5
number_of_replicas : 4
analysis :
analyzer :
standard :
type : standard

store:
type: memory
memory:
cache_size: 100m
buffer_size: 10k

Thanks

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Ah I see, thanks for the info.

S.D.

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Andrew Harvey
Andrew.Harvey@lexer.com.auwrote:

Here's my understanding:

If you don't have enough machines to host all your replicas, then yes, your
status will be yellow.

You'd need 5 running instances to be green.

Andrew

On 29/06/2010, at 11:04 AM, Samuel Doyle wrote:

So today is the first day I started testing with the cluster health api and
I am constantly getting yellow which based on the documentation indicates
replicas have not been allocated.
My build is from master and I'm testing with one local instance running.
Any ideas on what could be causing this?

My config is pretty basic:

cluster:
name: Test

node:
data: true

http:
enabled: true

gateway:
type: fs
fs:
location: /tmp/elasticsearch/data/cluster
index :
number_of_shards : 5
number_of_replicas : 4
analysis :
analyzer :
standard :
type : standard

store:
type: memory
memory:
cache_size: 100m
buffer_size: 10k

Thanks

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4

Actually, the shard allocation mechanism does not allocate a shard and its
replica on the same node, though it does allocate different shards on the
same node. So, you will need two nodes to get cluster state of green.

-shay.banon

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Samuel Doyle samueldoyle@gmail.com wrote:

Ah I see, thanks for the info.

S.D.

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Andrew Harvey <Andrew.Harvey@lexer.com.au

wrote:

Here's my understanding:

If you don't have enough machines to host all your replicas, then yes,
your status will be yellow.

You'd need 5 running instances to be green.

Andrew

On 29/06/2010, at 11:04 AM, Samuel Doyle wrote:

So today is the first day I started testing with the cluster health api
and I am constantly getting yellow which based on the documentation
indicates replicas have not been allocated.
My build is from master and I'm testing with one local instance running.
Any ideas on what could be causing this?

My config is pretty basic:

cluster:
name: Test

node:
data: true

http:
enabled: true

gateway:
type: fs
fs:
location: /tmp/elasticsearch/data/cluster
index :
number_of_shards : 5
number_of_replicas : 4
analysis :
analyzer :
standard :
type : standard

store:
type: memory
memory:
cache_size: 100m
buffer_size: 10k

Thanks

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