# My cluster health showing :cluster health: yellow (16 of 26)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-cluster-health-showing-cluster-health-yellow-16-of-26/150117>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 27, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-cluster-health-showing-cluster-health-yellow-16-of-26/150117 "2018-09-27T05:31:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![johnrabi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnrabi/32/67223_2.png) [@johnrabi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnrabi)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-cluster-health-showing-cluster-health-yellow-16-of-26/150117/1 "2018-09-27T05:31:05Z")

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Hi Team,  
can anyone help me to resolve this issue and explain about this  
My cluster health showing cluster health: yellow (16 of 26)

{  
"cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch",  
"status" : "yellow",  
"timed\_out" : false,  
"number\_of\_nodes" : 1,  
"number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 1,  
"active\_primary\_shards" : 16,  
"active\_shards" : 16,  
"relocating\_shards" : 0,  
"initializing\_shards" : 0,  
"unassigned\_shards" : 10,  
"delayed\_unassigned\_shards" : 0,  
"number\_of\_pending\_tasks" : 0,  
"number\_of\_in\_flight\_fetch" : 0,  
"task\_max\_waiting\_in\_queue\_millis" : 0,  
"active\_shards\_percent\_as\_number" : 61.53846153846154  
}

one node having good , in antoher is showing unassigned

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-cluster-health-showing-cluster-health-yellow-16-of-26/150117/2 "2018-09-27T05:57:41Z")

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As you only have one node in the cluster, replica shards can not be assigned, which means the cluster state will be yellow. You can change this by setting the replica count to 0 for your indices or by adding an additional node so they can be allocated.

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**Author:** ![johnrabi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johnrabi/32/67223_2.png) [@johnrabi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johnrabi)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-cluster-health-showing-cluster-health-yellow-16-of-26/150117/3 "2018-09-27T07:19:21Z")

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Thanks Christian\_Dahlqvist

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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:** [October 25, 2018, 7:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/my-cluster-health-showing-cluster-health-yellow-16-of-26/150117/4 "2018-10-25T07:19:31Z")

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