# Index patterns health status yellow

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-patterns-health-status-yellow/260749>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat, metricbeat\
**Created:** [January 11, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-patterns-health-status-yellow/260749 "2021-01-11T16:39:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Grant1999](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/grant1999/32/81534_2.png) [@Grant1999](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Grant1999)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-patterns-health-status-yellow/260749/1 "2021-01-11T16:39:13Z")

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Any idea what it means about health status being yellow?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/0/501c62173fc542a0b1cd02d0e4a79df22172b673.png)

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**Author:** ![leandrojmp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leandrojmp/32/107231_2.png) [@leandrojmp](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/leandrojmp)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-patterns-health-status-yellow/260749/2 "2021-01-11T18:16:06Z")

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The health as yellow usually means that your replicas are not allocated to any node yet.

How many nodes does your cluster have?

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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:** [February 8, 2021, 8:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-patterns-health-status-yellow/260749/3 "2021-02-08T20:16:27Z")

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