# Indexing when the state is YELLOW **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 6, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-when-the-state-is-yellow/9967 "2012-12-06T07:20:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kavin\_Xavier](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kavin_xavier/32/2590_2.png) [@Kavin\_Xavier](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kavin_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-when-the-state-is-yellow/9967/1 "2012-12-06T07:20:36Z")
Hi all, We have a cluster with more then 1 TB data/100 indices and when we migrated to a newer version and restarted, the cluster went to yellow state and I understand it is perfectly normal. I am sure that when in Yellow, all the search operation can happen with only some performance delay. The question is, can we also keep on indexing new documents when the cluster is yellow. Will it slow down the recovery process or it will stop the recovery process or its not an issue at all? Any answer would be much appreciated. Regards, Kavin -- ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Lecocq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dan_lecocq/32/2565_2.png) [@Dan\_Lecocq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan_Lecocq)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-when-the-state-is-yellow/9967/2 "2012-12-06T16:29:16Z")
My experience has been that we usually can index in the yellow state, though not always at the same rate. I usually only try to index data if there aren't any relocating/initializing shards in the index I'm trying to put docs into. That said, I'd imagine that running indexing during recovery is bound to slow down the process a certain amount, though it's hard to say how much. :-/ On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 11:20:36 PM UTC-8, Kavin wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a cluster with more then 1 TB data/100 indices and when we > migrated to a newer version and restarted, the cluster went to yellow state > and I understand it is perfectly normal. I am sure that when in Yellow, all > the search operation can happen with only some performance delay. The > question is, can we also keep on indexing new documents when the cluster is > yellow. Will it slow down the recovery process or it will stop the recovery > process or its not an issue at all? Any answer would be much appreciated. > > Regards, > Kavin -- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-when-the-state-is-yellow/9967/3 "2017-07-06T03:01:04Z")