# ILM action status - Waiting for all shard copies to be active

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [May 27, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209 "2021-05-27T12:54:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![braham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@braham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braham)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209/1 "2021-05-27T12:54:40Z")

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Hello,

We have configured ILM policy but it's changing the phase "hot" to "warm" but after that not changing further phases like "cold" and "delete". We see action status "Waiting for all shard copies to be active".

**ILM definition**

> PUT \_ilm/policy/acquia-watchdog-ilm-policy  
> {  
> "policy": {  
> "phases": {  
> "hot": {  
> "min\_age": "0ms",  
> "actions": {  
> "set\_priority": {  
> "priority": 0  
> }  
> }  
> },  
> "warm": {  
> "min\_age": "1d",  
> "actions": {}  
> },  
> "cold": {  
> "min\_age": "7d",  
> "actions": {}  
> },  
> "delete": {  
> "min\_age": "30d",  
> "actions": {  
> "delete": {  
> "delete\_searchable\_snapshot": true  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }

Could you please assist at this moment.

Thanks and regards  
Braham Pal singh

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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 27, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209/2 "2021-05-27T23:17:33Z")

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Can you show the output from an explain on the policy?

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**Author:** ![braham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@braham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braham)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209/3 "2021-05-28T05:03:56Z")

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Hi @warkolm ,  
Thanks a ton for your response. Please find the explain output as below:

> GET acquia-watchdog-2021.04.01/\_ilm/explain  
> {  
> "indices" : {  
> "acquia-watchdog-2021.04.01" : {  
> "index" : "acquia-watchdog-2021.04.01",  
> "managed" : true,  
> "policy" : "acquia-watchdog-ilm-policy",  
> "lifecycle\_date\_millis" : 1617235208184,  
> "age" : "57.2d",  
> "phase" : "warm",  
> "phase\_time\_millis" : 1617321742457,  
> "action" : "migrate",  
> "action\_time\_millis" : 1617321742457,  
> "step" : "check-migration",  
> "step\_time\_millis" : 1617321742925,  
> "step\_info" : {  
> "message" : "Waiting for all shard copies to be active",  
> "shards\_left\_to\_allocate" : -1,  
> "all\_shards\_active" : false,  
> "number\_of\_replicas" : 1  
> },  
> "phase\_execution" : {  
> "policy" : "acquia-watchdog-ilm-policy",  
> "phase\_definition" : {  
> "min\_age" : "1d",  
> "actions" : { }  
> },  
> "version" : 2,  
> "modified\_date\_in\_millis" : 1589258325274  
> }  
> }  
> }  
> }

Kind regards,  
Braham

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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 31, 2021, 7:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209/4 "2021-05-31T07:29:35Z")

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Is there unallocated shards in the cluster?

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**Author:** ![braham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@braham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braham)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209/5 "2021-05-31T13:49:35Z")

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Hi @warkolm ,  
Not sure, having very limited expertise in ES. Could you please help me how to get unallocated shards in the cluster.

Thanks,  
Braham

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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 31, 2021, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209/6 "2021-05-31T23:44:53Z")

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`GET _cat/allocation?v` is the best way

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**Author:** ![braham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@braham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braham)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209/7 "2021-06-01T04:43:46Z")

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Please find the output as below:

> GET \_cat/allocation?format=json  
> [  
> {  
> "shards" : "276",  
> "disk.indices" : "47.4gb",  
> "disk.used" : "82.9gb",  
> "disk.avail" : "37gb",  
> "disk.total" : "119.9gb",  
> "disk.percent" : "69",  
> "host" : "127.0.0.1",  
> "ip" : "127.0.0.1",  
> "node" : "ip-192-168-0-170.eu-west-1.compute.internal"  
> },  
> {  
> "shards" : "188",  
> "disk.indices" : null,  
> "disk.used" : null,  
> "disk.avail" : null,  
> "disk.total" : null,  
> "disk.percent" : null,  
> "host" : null,  
> "ip" : null,  
> "node" : "UNASSIGNED"  
> }  
> ]

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**Author:** ![braham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@braham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braham)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2021, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209/8 "2021-06-03T08:26:44Z")

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Hi @warkolm ,  
Is there luck in regard of the shared details in previous comment?

Thanks,  
Braham

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**Author:** ![braham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f0a364/32.png) [@braham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/braham)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209/9 "2021-06-09T05:27:19Z")

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Hi @warkolm ,  
Just to remind about the issue, any suggestion to proceed further.

Thanks,  
Braham

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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 7, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/ilm-action-status-waiting-for-all-shard-copies-to-be-active/274209/10 "2021-07-07T05:27:31Z")

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