Kibana index .kibana_task_manager goes unassigned after few days and cause Red cluster health

[AaronSarkissian]

It seems that others had similar issues too which were not solved!

Geoip_databases index allocation failed

Im learning and playing around with Elasticsearch. Just setup a new local test cluster with 3 nodes on kubernetes (Elasticsearch 8.1.0) and also set up kibana 8.1.0. In kubernetes its a StateFulset with storage on NFS. The cluster health says "red" because there seems to be an unassigned shard: .geoip_databases p UNASSIGNED ALLOCATION_FAILED taking a closer look with: _cluster/allocation/explain?pretty { "note": "No shard was specified in the explain API request, so this response …