# Is this a bug?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-a-bug/125658>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 26, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-a-bug/125658 "2018-03-26T18:16:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![arisbanach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@arisbanach](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arisbanach)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-a-bug/125658/1 "2018-03-26T18:16:29Z")

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Not sure if this is a bug: I visited `/_cat/recovery?v&active_only=true` in my cluster and saw one row was misaligned, and found that the `source_node` for one of my indices started with a whitespace character (e.g. `[whitespace]avHAygv`) while all others were just the normal 7 random characters.

Note: Not sure why, but the forum looks like it removed the whitespace character from the e.g. I gave, so I added text to show it.

I thought maybe there is a bug in the code that is outputting it incorrectly.

Also, I noticed that when that index is listed several times, that the whitespace is consistently prepended to the `source_node` value, while the others are not. This leads me to believe that it is actually part of the value of the id that Elasticsearch assigned to the node.

Also also, from looking at the rest of the output, I am thinking there are a lot more spacing/alignment issues with this API endpoint. The other endpoints work well for me, but this one in particular is very misaligned.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 8:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-a-bug/125658/2 "2018-03-26T20:18:28Z")

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Can you post the actual output from these API calls?

Use the code formatting button, or markdown style backticks.

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**Author:** ![arisbanach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@arisbanach](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arisbanach)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-a-bug/125658/3 "2018-03-26T20:23:47Z")

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Unfortunately, all of the nodes have recovered already so the current output for me is blank. I can post a screenshot I took, though. Is that okay?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-a-bug/125658/4 "2018-03-26T21:02:13Z")

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Sure.

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**Author:** ![arisbanach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@arisbanach](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arisbanach)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-a-bug/125658/5 "2018-03-27T14:12:13Z")

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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:** [April 24, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-this-a-bug/125658/6 "2018-04-24T14:12:45Z")

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