# Index health status coming as 'red\*'

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** language-clients
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049 "2020-12-18T04:20:39Z")
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### Author: ![NinjaMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/67e7ee/32.png) [@NinjaMonkey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NinjaMonkey)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049/1 "2020-12-18T04:20:39Z")

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Using ES 6.5.4  
I am using NEST query that basically looks for cat indices for my client and gets health status for all the indices. The expected health statuses are green, yellow and red.  
However, for one of my lower environment, index health status is coming up as 'red\*' for one of the current day index.  
On checking cluster, I could see that the health status was showing as green at that time.  
Can someone please help me as to why am I getting 'red\*' as health status .

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### Author: ![val](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/val/32/138203_2.png) [@val](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/val)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049/2 "2020-12-18T05:26:42Z")

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Can you share the output you get from running these two commands in Kibana Dev Tools?

```
GET _cat/health?v
GET _cluster/allocation/explain
```

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### Author: ![NinjaMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/67e7ee/32.png) [@NinjaMonkey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NinjaMonkey)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049/4 "2020-12-22T09:16:25Z")

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### Author: ![NinjaMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/67e7ee/32.png) [@NinjaMonkey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NinjaMonkey)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049/5 "2020-12-22T09:17:22Z")

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### Author: ![NinjaMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/67e7ee/32.png) [@NinjaMonkey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NinjaMonkey)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049/6 "2020-12-22T09:18:03Z")

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@val Shared output as asked.

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### Author: ![val](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/val/32/138203_2.png) [@val](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/val)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 9:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049/7 "2020-12-22T09:19:15Z")

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Thanks but as you can see your cluster is green right now. You should call those two commands when the cluster is RED.

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### Author: ![NinjaMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/67e7ee/32.png) [@NinjaMonkey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/NinjaMonkey)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049/8 "2020-12-22T09:25:52Z")

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That's the problem. Cluster doesn't go red at all. That's why I am confused why it is showing up as red.

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### Author: ![val](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/val/32/138203_2.png) [@val](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/val)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049/9 "2020-12-22T09:27:39Z")

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Where does it show up as red? When hitting which endpoint? Can you share the request/response?

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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: [January 19, 2021, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-health-status-coming-as-red/259049/10 "2021-01-19T09:27:57Z")

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