# Index doc, pdf, odt .... =\> cluster : yellow, why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 10, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-doc-pdf-odt-cluster-yellow-why/18577 "2014-07-10T13:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tanguy\_Bernard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tanguy\_Bernard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tanguy_Bernard)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-doc-pdf-odt-cluster-yellow-why/18577/1 "2014-07-10T13:35:22Z")
Hello, this is my code when I index ( I use this because I want to make a search inside a document (on this content)) _PUT test_ _PUT test/my\_type/\_mapping_ _{_ - "my\_type" : {\* - ``` "properties" : {* ``` - ``` "my_file" : {* ``` - ``` "type" : "attachment",* ``` - ``` "fields" : {* ``` - ``` "my_file" : { "term_vector":"with_positions_offsets"}* ``` - ``` }* ``` - ``` }* ``` - ``` }* ``` - }\* _}_ I open my doc, I convert it in base64 and I index it. _PUT test/my\_type/1_ _{_ - "my\_file" : "my file in base64",\* - "name": "the name of file"\* _}_ And I search : _GET test/my\_etape/\_search?pretty=true_ _{"size": 50,_ _"query": {_ - "query\_string": {\* - ``` "query": "my keywords"* ``` - }\* - },"highlight": {"fields": {"my\_file":{" **term\_vector**" : "\* _with\_positions\_offsets_\*"}\* _}_ _}_ _}_ I don't understand why my cluster turn yellow ? Have you an explanation for me or an other way to do this, please ? Thank to you in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c7ec2914-0498-414d-96a1-ccffeff93148%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c7ec2914-0498-414d-96a1-ccffeff93148%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rafal_kuc_3/32/799_2.png) [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-doc-pdf-odt-cluster-yellow-why/18577/2 "2014-07-10T13:39:19Z")
Hello! Can you check and paste the cluster health (curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty')? You probably have a single Elasticsearch node and you are suing the default configuration? If so than, by default, Elasticsearch created 5 shards and 1 replica of each. This means that while the 5 primary shards were properly initialized, the replicas are left alone (by default ES don't put primary shard and its replicas on the same node). _--_ Regards, Rafał Kuć Performance Monitoring \* Log Analytics \* Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support \* [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) Hello, this is my code when I index ( I use this because I want to make a search inside a document (on this content)) **PUT test** PUT test/my\_type/\_mapping { ``` "my_type" : { "properties" : { "my_file" : { "type" : "attachment", "fields" : { "my_file" : { "term_vector":"with_positions_offsets"} } } } } ``` } I open my doc, I convert it in base64 and I index it. **PUT test/my\_type/1** { "my\_file" : "my file in base64", "name": "the name of file" } And I search : **GET test/my\_etape/\_search?pretty=true** {"size": 50, "query": { ``` "query_string": { "query": "my keywords" } },"highlight": {"fields": {"my_file":{"term_vector" : "with_positions_offsets"} ``` } } } I don't understand why my cluster turn yellow ? Have you an explanation for me or an other way to do this, please ? Thank to you in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c7ec2914-0498-414d-96a1-ccffeff93148%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c7ec2914-0498-414d-96a1-ccffeff93148%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Tanguy\_Bernard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tanguy\_Bernard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tanguy_Bernard)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-doc-pdf-odt-cluster-yellow-why/18577/3 "2014-07-10T13:43:27Z")
Health of cluster: yellow (35 50) curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty' { "cluster\_name": "elasticsearch", "status": "yellow", "timed\_out": false, "number\_of\_nodes": 1, "number\_of\_data\_nodes": 1, "active\_primary\_shards": 35, "active\_shards": 35, "relocating\_shards": 0, "initializing\_shards": 0, "unassigned\_shards": 15 } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b7d49cbb-687f-4eac-8b54-9b5b24c886db%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b7d49cbb-687f-4eac-8b54-9b5b24c886db%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rafal_kuc_3/32/799_2.png) [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-doc-pdf-odt-cluster-yellow-why/18577/4 "2014-07-10T13:57:19Z")
Hello! You can see this is exactly the case - you have a single node and Elasticsearch won't assign primary shard and replicas of it on the same node. If you would run a second node Elasticsearch would allocate that 15 unassigned shards and rebalance the shards between the two node cluster - try that out, even locally. Of course, if you are using that single node for development you can just remove the replicas by running: curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/\_settings' -d '{"index" : { "number\_of\_replicas" : 0 }}' However remember that in production you usually don't want to have primaries and their replicas on the same node and you want more than a single Elasticsearch node running. _--_ Regards, Rafał Kuć Performance Monitoring \* Log Analytics \* Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support \* [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) **Health of cluster: yellow (35 50)** curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty' { "cluster\_name": "elasticsearch", "status": "yellow", "timed\_out": false, "number\_of\_nodes": 1, "number\_of\_data\_nodes": 1, "active\_primary\_shards": 35, "active\_shards": 35, "relocating\_shards": 0, "initializing\_shards": 0, "unassigned\_shards": 15 } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b7d49cbb-687f-4eac-8b54-9b5b24c886db%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b7d49cbb-687f-4eac-8b54-9b5b24c886db%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Tanguy\_Bernard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tanguy\_Bernard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tanguy_Bernard)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-doc-pdf-odt-cluster-yellow-why/18577/5 "2014-07-10T14:11:59Z")
Thank you. In my case I have many client, I use one index by client and a single node. I work with elasticsearch recently and for the moment I don't understand why to use a second node ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a7920608-37ce-4f17-b6f7-4c9b2806dacb%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a7920608-37ce-4f17-b6f7-4c9b2806dacb%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rafal_kuc_3/32/799_2.png) [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-doc-pdf-odt-cluster-yellow-why/18577/6 "2014-07-10T14:30:09Z")
Hello! Multiple nodes for high availability - everything crashes, and you don't want to loose Elasticsearch and the ability to search and analyze your data. Also for better performance - you can have your index built of many shards that are spread across multiple nodes and have replicas of that shards, so you can physical copies that can handle the traffic if one node is not able to handle it. _--_ Regards, Rafał Kuć Performance Monitoring \* Log Analytics \* Search Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support \* [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) Thank you. In my case I have many client, I use one index by client and a single node. I work with elasticsearch recently and for the moment I don't understand why to use a second node ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a7920608-37ce-4f17-b6f7-4c9b2806dacb%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a7920608-37ce-4f17-b6f7-4c9b2806dacb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Tanguy\_Bernard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tanguy\_Bernard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tanguy_Bernard)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-doc-pdf-odt-cluster-yellow-why/18577/7 "2014-07-10T14:34:50Z")
Thank you Rafał Kuć. Really interesting. Tanguy Le jeudi 10 juillet 2014 16:30:25 UTC+2, Rafał Kuć a écrit : > Hello! > > Multiple nodes for high availability - everything crashes, and you don't > want to loose Elasticsearch and the ability to search and analyze your > data. Also for better performance - you can have your index built of many > shards that are spread across multiple nodes and have replicas of that > shards, so you can physical copies that can handle the traffic if one node > is not able to handle it. > > \*-- Regards, Rafał Kuć Performance Monitoring \* Log Analytics \* Search > Analytics Solr & Elasticsearch Support \* \*[http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) > > Thank you. > > ## In my case I have many client, I use one index by client and a single node. I work with elasticsearch recently and for the moment I don't understand why to use a second node ? > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com) \. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a7920608-37ce-4f17-b6f7-4c9b2806dacb%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a7920608-37ce-4f17-b6f7-4c9b2806dacb%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a7920608-37ce-4f17-b6f7-4c9b2806dacb%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a7920608-37ce-4f17-b6f7-4c9b2806dacb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/981734e9-1d3f-4a42-ad63-e637fe373e7d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/981734e9-1d3f-4a42-ad63-e637fe373e7d%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Williams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Steven\_Williams](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Steven_Williams)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-doc-pdf-odt-cluster-yellow-why/18577/8 "2015-03-03T09:29:43Z")
Hello > I get Yellow status cluster as well. I have 2 nodes (two different machines) and on occasion the cluster goes from green to yellow (my cluster health is below, and at the moment all is good) "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch", "status" : "green", "timed\_out" : false, "number\_of\_nodes" : 2, "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 2, "active\_primary\_shards" : 11, "active\_shards" : 22, "relocating\_shards" : 0, "initializing\_shards" : 0, "unassigned\_shards" : 0 } I have read what the different status colours mean, but I cant find anywhere that says WHY these things happen i.e. network issue, cpu load etc etc. Are the any main reasons that would give cause to red / yellow reasons? ive got some monitoring on my cluster to alert me when its not green, and I can go and restart the slave server, then it goes back to green.. but still this does not identify why this happens? Any comments would be greatly appreciated 🙂 Cheers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8807a6e5-6060-48a1-b052-5aa09ee4434f%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8807a6e5-6060-48a1-b052-5aa09ee4434f%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
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You should really create a new thread for this rather than resurrecting an old one. On 3 March 2015 at 20:29, Steven Williams [cybordax@googlemail.com](mailto:cybordax@googlemail.com) wrote: > Hello > > > > > I get Yellow status cluster as well. > > I have 2 nodes (two different machines) and on occasion the cluster goes > from green to yellow (my cluster health is below, and at the moment all is > good) > > "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch", > "status" : "green", > "timed\_out" : false, > "number\_of\_nodes" : 2, > "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 2, > "active\_primary\_shards" : 11, > "active\_shards" : 22, > "relocating\_shards" : 0, > "initializing\_shards" : 0, > "unassigned\_shards" : 0 > } > > I have read what the different status colours mean, but I cant find > anywhere that says WHY these things happen i.e. network issue, cpu load etc > etc. > > Are the any main reasons that would give cause to red / yellow reasons? > > ive got some monitoring on my cluster to alert me when its not green, and > I can go and restart the slave server, then it goes back to green.. but > still this does not identify why this happens? > > Any comments would be greatly appreciated 🙂 > > Cheers > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8807a6e5-6060-48a1-b052-5aa09ee4434f%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8807a6e5-6060-48a1-b052-5aa09ee4434f%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8807a6e5-6060-48a1-b052-5aa09ee4434f%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8807a6e5-6060-48a1-b052-5aa09ee4434f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X8Ms9ZLCZg4obVxH0c1OdOcmL1U0wB2C\_yP9go3r-aQ-A%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X8Ms9ZLCZg4obVxH0c1OdOcmL1U0wB2C_yP9go3r-aQ-A%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Williams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Steven\_Williams](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Steven_Williams)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-doc-pdf-odt-cluster-yellow-why/18577/10 "2015-03-03T10:46:18Z")
i shall do that, thanks On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Steven Williams [cybordax@googlemail.com](mailto:cybordax@googlemail.com) wrote: > Hello > > > > > I get Yellow status cluster as well. > > I have 2 nodes (two different machines) and on occasion the cluster goes > from green to yellow (my cluster health is below, and at the moment all is > good) > > "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch", > "status" : "green", > "timed\_out" : false, > "number\_of\_nodes" : 2, > "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 2, > "active\_primary\_shards" : 11, > "active\_shards" : 22, > "relocating\_shards" : 0, > "initializing\_shards" : 0, > "unassigned\_shards" : 0 > } > > I have read what the different status colours mean, but I cant find > anywhere that says WHY these things happen i.e. network issue, cpu load etc > etc. > > Are the any main reasons that would give cause to red / yellow reasons? > > ive got some monitoring on my cluster to alert me when its not green, and > I can go and restart the slave server, then it goes back to green.. but > still this does not identify why this happens? > > Any comments would be greatly appreciated 🙂 > > Cheers > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/-jKGlBBuEn4/unsubscribe](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/-jKGlBBuEn4/unsubscribe). > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8807a6e5-6060-48a1-b052-5aa09ee4434f%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8807a6e5-6060-48a1-b052-5aa09ee4434f%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8807a6e5-6060-48a1-b052-5aa09ee4434f%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8807a6e5-6060-48a1-b052-5aa09ee4434f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CANRN3tbcQJHqo1c2Pwp0GMmHJZf7eF-LDZ0R%3DqcMjyBCzgokQA%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CANRN3tbcQJHqo1c2Pwp0GMmHJZf7eF-LDZ0R%3DqcMjyBCzgokQA%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
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