# No valid shards **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 24, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344 "2021-08-24T12:25:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![\_bugc4t](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/_bugc4t/32/93523_2.png) [@\_bugc4t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_bugc4t)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/1 "2021-08-24T12:25:42Z")
I'm having some issues with my index where it won't allocate any shards so I can't create an Index Pattern. I've looked into the Stats on the Index Management page, which gets: ```auto "_shards": { "total": 2, "successful": 0, "failed": 0 } } ``` I've also started debugging in dev: ```auto "index" : "filebeat-7.14.0-2021.08.24-000001", "shard" : 0, "primary" : false, "current_state" : "unassigned", "unassigned_info" : { "reason" : "PRIMARY_FAILED", "at" : "2021-08-24T11:50:00.607Z", "details" : "primary failed while replica initializing", "last_allocation_status" : "no_attempt" }, "can_allocate" : "no", "allocate_explanation" : "cannot allocate because allocation is not permitted to any of the nodes", "node_allocation_decisions" : [ { "node_id" : "50Eq1WDAQjWVqCHjDyV1jg", "node_name" : "aegis-es-default-3", "transport_address" : "10.112.4.13:9300", "node_attributes" : { "k8s_node_name" : "gke-elastic-hot-a4cab97d-t91m", "ml.machine_memory" : "61606215680", "ml.max_open_jobs" : "512", "xpack.installed" : "true", "ml.max_jvm_size" : "2147483648", "transform.node" : "true" }, "node_decision" : "no", "deciders" : [ { "decider" : "replica_after_primary_active", "decision" : "NO", "explanation" : "primary shard for this replica is not yet active" }, { "decider" : "throttling", "decision" : "NO", "explanation" : "primary shard for this replica is not yet active" } ] } ``` ```auto Error: [object Object]: no_shard_available_action_exception: [no_shard_available_action_exception] Reason: No shard available for [org.elasticsearch.action.fieldcaps.FieldCapabilitiesIndexRequest/unset] at https://localhost:5601/42747/bundles/plugin/data/kibana/data.plugin.js:1:376579 at async index_patterns_IndexPatternsService.refreshFieldSpecMap (https://localhost:5601/42747/bundles/plugin/data/kibana/data.plugin.js:1:529228) at async index_patterns_IndexPatternsService.initFromSavedObject (https://localhost:5601/42747/bundles/plugin/data/kibana/data.plugin.js:1:532115) at async index_patterns_IndexPatternsService.createSavedObject (https://localhost:5601/42747/bundles/plugin/data/kibana/data.plugin.js:1:536335) at async index_patterns_IndexPatternsService.createAndSave (https://localhost:5601/42747/bundles/plugin/data/kibana/data.plugin.js:1:535578) at async https://localhost:5601/42747/bundles/plugin/indexPatternManagement/kibana/indexPatternManagement.chunk.1.js:1:559076 at async https://localhost:5601/42747/bundles/plugin/indexPatternManagement/kibana/indexPatternManagement.chunk.1.js:1:548920 ``` ---
**Author:** ![hunsw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hunsw/32/93637_2.png) [@hunsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hunsw)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/2 "2021-08-24T12:35:59Z")
Hello, do you have at least one data node in your cluster? Is your cluster healthy? ---
**Author:** ![\_bugc4t](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/_bugc4t/32/93523_2.png) [@\_bugc4t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_bugc4t)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/3 "2021-08-24T12:45:07Z")
Yes, I've got 5 node pools with all healthy nodes ---
**Author:** ![hunsw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hunsw/32/93637_2.png) [@hunsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hunsw)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/4 "2021-08-24T12:53:50Z")
You should check the primary shards of filebeat-7.14.0-2021.08.24-000001, i.e. if they are allocated / if not, why not. Can you create any indices at all? (E.g. with a simple PUT myindex call in Kibana dev console.) ---
**Author:** ![\_bugc4t](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/_bugc4t/32/93523_2.png) [@\_bugc4t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_bugc4t)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/5 "2021-08-24T13:00:43Z")
I can't create any indices, same error comes up. I've got 5 node pools attached to my cluster ---
**Author:** ![hunsw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hunsw/32/93637_2.png) [@hunsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hunsw)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/6 "2021-08-24T13:03:42Z")
Can you post the output of these commands? ```auto GET _cat/nodes?v GET _cluster/health?pretty ``` ---
**Author:** ![\_bugc4t](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/_bugc4t/32/93523_2.png) [@\_bugc4t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_bugc4t)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/7 "2021-08-24T13:16:25Z")
ip heap.percent ram.percent cpu load\_1m load\_5m load\_15m node.role master name 10.112.4.16 50 4 0 0.12 0.09 0.03 m - x-es-master-0 10.112.4.13 45 4 0 0.12 0.09 0.03 cdfhilmrstw - x-es-default-3 10.112.2.12 39 10 2 0.05 0.05 0.19 cdfhilmrstw - x-es-default-4 10.112.0.13 17 10 2 0.16 0.15 0.17 cdfhilmrstw - x-es-default-5 10.112.1.17 65 10 2 1.27 1.04 0.55 cdfhilmrstw - x-es-default-6 10.112.5.17 11 4 0 0.17 0.23 0.25 cdfhilmrstw - x-es-default-2 10.112.4.14 10 4 0 0.12 0.09 0.03 cdfhilmrstw - x-es-default-8 10.112.2.14 7 9 2 0.05 0.05 0.19 m - x-es-master-2 10.112.1.16 19 10 2 1.27 1.04 0.55 cdfhilmrstw \* x-es-default-0 10.112.6.4 11 5 0 0.06 0.24 0.25 cdfhilmrstw - x-es-default-7 10.112.0.15 11 9 2 0.16 0.15 0.17 m - x-es-master-1 ---
**Author:** ![\_bugc4t](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/_bugc4t/32/93523_2.png) [@\_bugc4t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_bugc4t)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/8 "2021-08-24T13:16:48Z")
```auto { "cluster_name" : "aegis", "status" : "red", "timed_out" : false, "number_of_nodes" : 11, "number_of_data_nodes" : 8, "active_primary_shards" : 11, "active_shards" : 22, "relocating_shards" : 0, "initializing_shards" : 0, "unassigned_shards" : 3, "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" : 88.0 } ``` ---
**Author:** ![hunsw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hunsw/32/93637_2.png) [@hunsw](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hunsw)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2021, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/9 "2021-08-24T13:34:50Z")
Is shard allocation enabled? In GET \_cluster/settings you should have "cluster.routing.allocation.enable" should be either unset or set to 'all'. Also if you have a primary shard unassigned, you should try to see why that is unallocated. ( ```auto GET _cluster/allocation/explain?pretty ``` ). ---
**Author:** ![\_bugc4t](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/_bugc4t/32/93523_2.png) [@\_bugc4t](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/_bugc4t)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/10 "2021-09-08T12:05:20Z")
It was an issue with the k8s cluster not having enough resources. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/no-valid-shards/282344/11 "2021-10-06T12:06:08Z")
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