# Index routing and deletion

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-routing-and-deletion/337809>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 6, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-routing-and-deletion/337809 "2023-07-06T14:51:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![parthmaniar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@parthmaniar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/parthmaniar)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-routing-and-deletion/337809/1 "2023-07-06T14:51:32Z")

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Hello,

I hope my message finds community members and their loved ones safe and healthy.

I have a three-node cluster with two nodes storing data and one being a voting-only node.

The current status of the cluster is `yellow` because two indices are not assigned.

```auto
index shard prirep state node unassigned.reason
.ds-logs-endpoint.events.process-default-2023.07.06-000088 0 r UNASSIGNED INDEX_CREATED
.kibana-event-log-8.8.2-000001 0 r UNASSIGNED INDEX_CREATED

```

I have enabled routing after the recent 8.8.1 update using.

```auto
PUT _cluster/settings
{
  "persistent" : {
    "cluster.routing.allocation.enable" : null
  }
}

```

However, the cluster is still yellow. Hence my first question `How do I have these indices routed and replicas created?`

**My second question** is that I have a total of `1100 primary shards`. However, ~800 (~73%) are indices with `.` at the start of the name.

```auto
{
    "cluster_name": "data_analytics_1",
    "status": "yellow",
    "timed_out": false,
    "number_of_nodes": 3,
    "number_of_data_nodes": 2,
    "active_primary_shards": 1100,
    "active_shards": 2198,
    "relocating_shards": 0,
    "initializing_shards": 0,
    "unassigned_shards": 2,
    "delayed_unassigned_shards": 0,
    "number_of_pending_tasks": 0,
    "number_of_in_flight_fetch": 0,
    "task_max_waiting_in_queue_millis": 0,
    "active_shards_percent_as_number": 99.90909090909092
}

```

**Is it safe to delete these?** Especially of older versions such as `.ds-logs-elastic_agent.filebeat-default-2021.07.16-000007` or `.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2022.10.14-000044` which are clearly of older versions?

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**Author:** ![parthmaniar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@parthmaniar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/parthmaniar)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-routing-and-deletion/337809/2 "2023-07-07T12:16:31Z")

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Part of this question is answered.

I used the wrong API to get the status. The correct query for this problem is:

```auto

GET _cluster/allocation/explain?filter_path=index,node_allocation_decisions.node_name,node_allocation_decisions.deciders.*
{
  "index": "{index name}",
  "shard": 0,
  "primary": false
}

```

The problem in my case was that one of the nodes was running 8.8.1 (secondarynode) while the other (primary) was running 8.8.2. I am using Ubuntu as the OS and after a reboot it was solved (there was no pending package update).

Thank you.

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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:** [August 4, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-routing-and-deletion/337809/3 "2023-08-04T12:17:24Z")

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