# Indices status shows yellow

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-status-shows-yellow/93918>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 20, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-status-shows-yellow/93918 "2017-07-20T10:58:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![sanketdarji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@sanketdarji](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanketdarji)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-status-shows-yellow/93918/1 "2017-07-20T10:58:26Z")

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health status index pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size  
yellow open .kibana 5 1 9 0 41.3kb 41.3kb  
yellow open logstash-2017.07.20 5 1 2148 0 634.5kb 634.5kb  
yellow open .reindex-status 1 1 0 0 159b 159b

what yellow status means in indices?

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**Author:** ![BLZB0B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/blzb0b/32/24714_2.png) [@BLZB0B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BLZB0B)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-status-shows-yellow/93918/2 "2017-07-20T11:32:57Z")

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is this on a single node? or in a cluster ?

If a single node (ie your dev machine), yellow is normal.

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**Author:** ![sanketdarji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@sanketdarji](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sanketdarji)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-status-shows-yellow/93918/3 "2017-07-20T12:16:41Z")

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Yes , It's a single node cluster .  
But my main intention is upgrade from 1.7 to 5.5.  
So I have to do reindex in 2.x and move to 5.5.  
Migrate plugin is not working if index status is yellow.  
Any suggestions on this.

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**Author:** ![BLZB0B](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/blzb0b/32/24714_2.png) [@BLZB0B](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/BLZB0B)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-status-shows-yellow/93918/4 "2017-07-20T12:24:45Z")

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I think we got around this by setting the number of replicas to 0 on test machines when creating the indexes.. not sure if you can change this post putting data in there?

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**Author:** ![jonasbareiss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@jonasbareiss](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jonasbareiss)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-status-shows-yellow/93918/5 "2017-07-20T12:27:16Z")

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I think your indices are configured with one or more Recplicas.

Set index.number\_of\_replicas : 0 and you will be green.  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-update-settings.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-update-settings.html)

If elastic has replicas that it is not able to allocate to a Node it will show status Yellow.

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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 17, 2017, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indices-status-shows-yellow/93918/6 "2017-08-17T12:28:12Z")

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