# Index status going to RED After I create index with this setting "index.routing.allocation.require.box\_type": "hot"
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-status-going-to-red-after-i-create-index-with-this-setting-index-routing-allocation-require-box-type-hot/180583
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 10, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-status-going-to-red-after-i-create-index-with-this-setting-index-routing-allocation-require-box-type-hot/180583 "2019-05-10T15:23:22Z")
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### Author:  [@chandukreddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandukreddi)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-status-going-to-red-after-i-create-index-with-this-setting-index-routing-allocation-require-box-type-hot/180583/1 "2019-05-10T15:23:22Z")
Hello Team,
I have 2 node cluster and one node is HOT and another node WARM.
Help me to understand why index status changing to RED when I use setting "index.routing.allocation.require.box\_type": "hot"
Index creation script:
PUT /%3Cswift-proxy-logs-%7Bnow%2Fd%7D-1%3E
{
"settings": {
"number\_of\_replicas": 0,
"index.routing.allocation.require.box\_type":"hot"
},
"aliases": {
"swift\_proxy\_log\_write\_alias": {
"is\_write\_index": true
}
}
}
[2019-05-10T08:14:30,630][INFO][o.e.c.m.MetaDataCreateIndexService] [elk-1] [swift-proxy-logs-2019.05.10-1] creating index, cause [api], templates , shards [5]/[0], mappings
[2019-05-10T08:14:30,633][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService] [elk-1] Cluster health status changed from [YELLOW] to [**RED**] (reason: [index [swift-proxy-logs-2019.05.10-1] created]).
with out setting "index.routing.allocation.require.box\_type": "hot" it works perfect.
PUT /%3Cswift-proxy-logs-%7Bnow%2Fd%7D-1%3E
{
"settings": {
"number\_of\_replicas": 0
},
"aliases": {
"swift\_proxy\_log\_write\_alias": {
"is\_write\_index": true
}
}
}
[2019-05-10T08:17:04,201][INFO][o.e.c.m.MetaDataCreateIndexService] [elk-1] [swift-proxy-logs-2019.05.10-1] creating index, cause [api], templates , shards [5]/[0], mappings
[2019-05-10T08:17:04,345][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService] [elk-1] Cluster health status changed from [YELLOW] to [**GREEN**] (reason: [shards started [[swift-proxy-logs-2019.05.10-1][1], [swift-proxy-logs-2019.05.10-1][4], [swift-proxy-logs-2019.05.10-1][2], [swift-proxy-logs-2019.05.10-1][0]] ...]).
I really appreciate your help!
Thanks
Chandra
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-status-going-to-red-after-i-create-index-with-this-setting-index-routing-allocation-require-box-type-hot/180583/2 "2019-05-10T15:41:33Z")
Do you have an attribute named `box_type` set to `hot` in your Elasticsearch configuration? [This post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/data-writing-into-warm-nodes-along-with-hot-nodes/180444) indicates the attribute may be named `data` and not `box_type`.
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### Author:  [@chandukreddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandukreddi)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-status-going-to-red-after-i-create-index-with-this-setting-index-routing-allocation-require-box-type-hot/180583/3 "2019-05-10T16:19:13Z")
@Christian_Dahlqvist, your right I have attribute data not box\_type.
Is this static or dynamic parameter? Can I change now?
```
"name" : "elk-1",
"transport_address" : "10.1.28.175:9300",
"host" : "10.1.28.175",
"ip" : "10.1.28.175",
"version" : "6.7.1",
"build_flavor" : "oss",
"build_type" : "tar",
"build_hash" : "2f32220",
"total_indexing_buffer" : 421645516,
"roles" : [
"master",
"data",
"ingest"
],
"attributes" : {
"data" : "hot"
},
"settings" : {
"cluster" : {
"name" : "elk-test"
},
"node" : {
"attr" : {
"data" : "hot"
},
"name" : "elk-1"
},
"path" : {
"data" : [
"/opt/data/elastic",
"/home/elk/opt1/data/elastic_1"
],
"logs" : "/opt/data/logs/elastic",
"home" : "/opt/elasticsearch"
```
Thanks
Chandra
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-status-going-to-red-after-i-create-index-with-this-setting-index-routing-allocation-require-box-type-hot/180583/4 "2019-05-12T07:07:03Z")
> [@chandukreddi](#):
>
> "index.routing.allocation.require.box\_type":"hot"
Why not change `box_type` to `data` in your template?
```auto
"index.routing.allocation.require.data":"hot"
```
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### Author:  [@chandukreddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chandukreddi)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-status-going-to-red-after-i-create-index-with-this-setting-index-routing-allocation-require-box-type-hot/180583/5 "2019-05-16T15:55:15Z")
I can do that.. will let you know once I made that change.
Thanks
Chandra
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-status-going-to-red-after-i-create-index-with-this-setting-index-routing-allocation-require-box-type-hot/180583/6 "2019-06-13T15:55:28Z")
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