# Issues with ES 1.4 Status Red, Unassigned shards, etc

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-with-es-1-4-status-red-unassigned-shards-etc/20668>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 10, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-with-es-1-4-status-red-unassigned-shards-etc/20668 "2014-11-10T17:47:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Viteka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3e96dc/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Viteka](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jeremy_Viteka)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-with-es-1-4-status-red-unassigned-shards-etc/20668/1 "2014-11-10T17:47:48Z")

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I recently began having issues with my ELK box after a rebuild to the  
latest Beta and I have not been receiving logs like normal. Here is my  
status and attempt to reassign a shard. Any help would be appreciated.  
Thanks!

curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true)'  
{  
"cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch",  
"status" : "red",  
"timed\_out" : false,  
"number\_of\_nodes" : 1,  
"number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 1,  
"active\_primary\_shards" : 101,  
"active\_shards" : 101,  
"relocating\_shards" : 0,  
"initializing\_shards" : 0,  
"unassigned\_shards" : 111

curl -XPOST -d '{ "commands" : [ { "allocate" : { "index" :  
"logstash-2014.10.30", "shard" : 2, "node" : "My Node" } } ] }'  
[http://localhost:9200/\_cluster/reroute?pretty](http://localhost:9200/_cluster/reroute?pretty)  
{  
"error" : "ElasticsearchIllegalArgumentException[[allocate] allocation of  
[logstash-2014.10.30][2] on node  
[MyNode][Z-5tPNJWTvyyHXZ6n8uLBg][server.mydomain.us][inet[localhost/127.0.0.1:9300]]  
is not allowed, reason: [NO(shard cannot be allocated on same node  
[Z-5tPNJWTvyyHXZ6n8uLBg] it already exists on)][YES(node passes  
include/exclude/require filters)][YES(primary is already active)][YES(below  
shard recovery limit of [2])][YES(allocation disabling is  
ignored)][YES(allocation disabling is ignored)][YES(no allocation awareness  
enabled)][YES(total shard limit disabled: [-1] \<= 0)][YES(target node  
version [1.4.0.Beta1] is same or newer than source node version  
[1.4.0.Beta1])][YES(only a single node is present)][YES(shard not primary  
or relocation disabled)]]",  
"status" : 400  
}

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issues-with-es-1-4-status-red-unassigned-shards-etc/20668/2 "2017-07-06T00:51:01Z")

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