# Node not joining Elasticsearch cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 11, 2021, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667 "2021-05-11T10:04:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ravi-shanker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ravi-shanker/32/87347_2.png) [@ravi-shanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ravi-shanker)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667/1 "2021-05-11T10:04:39Z")
I have made an Elasticsearch cluster of 3 nodes but one of the node is not joining the cluster. Below are my elasticsearch.yml file for all 3 nodes. NODE1 cluster.name: ES-Cluster node.name: node-1 node.master: true node.data: false path.data: /solr-index/Elasticsearch/Elasticdata/elasticsearch path.logs: /solr-index/Elasticsearch/elasticsearch network.host: ip\_node\_1 http.port: 9200 transport.port: 9300 discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["ip\_node\_1", "ip\_node\_2", "ip\_node\_3"] cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: ["node-1", "node-2", "node-3"] discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 2 NODE2 cluster.name: ES-Cluster node.name: node-2 node.master: true node.data: true path.data: /solr-index/Elasticsearch/Elasticdata/elasticsearch path.logs: /solr-index/Elasticsearch/elasticsearch network.host: ip\_node\_2 http.port: 9200 transport.port: 9300 discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["ip\_node\_1", "ip\_node\_2", "ip\_node\_3"] cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: ["node-1", "node-2", "node-3"] discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 2 NODE3 cluster.name: ES-Cluster node.name: node-3 path.data: /solr-index/Elasticsearch/Elasticdata/elasticsearch path.logs: /solr-index/Elasticsearch/elasticsearch network.host: ip\_node\_3 http.port: 9200 transport.port: 9300 discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["ip\_node\_1", "ip\_node\_2", "ip\_node\_3"] cluster.initial\_master\_nodes: ["node-1", "node-2", "node-3"] discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes: 2 All three nodes are in green status. PFB the output of **curl -XGET 'http://private\_ip:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty'** for all three node NODE1 { "cluster\_name" : "ES-Cluster", "status" : "green", "timed\_out" : false, "number\_of\_nodes" : 1, "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 1, "active\_primary\_shards" : 2, "active\_shards" : 2, "relocating\_shards" : 0, "initializing\_shards" : 0, "unassigned\_shards" : 0, "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" : 100.0 } NODE2 { "cluster\_name" : "ES-Cluster", "status" : "green", "timed\_out" : false, "number\_of\_nodes" : 2, "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 2, "active\_primary\_shards" : 12, "active\_shards" : 19, "relocating\_shards" : 0, "initializing\_shards" : 0, "unassigned\_shards" : 0, "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" : 100.0 } NODE3 { "cluster\_name" : "ES-Cluster", "status" : "green", "timed\_out" : false, "number\_of\_nodes" : 2, "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 2, "active\_primary\_shards" : 12, "active\_shards" : 19, "relocating\_shards" : 0, "initializing\_shards" : 0, "unassigned\_shards" : 0, "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" : 100.0 } Please help in resolving this issue as I am not able to proceed further because my cluster of 3 node is not getting formed. Also please let me know if any other input is required to help me out on this issue. Thanks ---
**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:** [May 11, 2021, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667/2 "2021-05-11T10:09:35Z")
Which version of Elasticsearch are you using? Given that node 1 reports a green state it would seem it does not use the config file you provided as minimum\_master\_nodes should make it red. ---
**Author:** ![ravi-shanker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ravi-shanker/32/87347_2.png) [@ravi-shanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ravi-shanker)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 10:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667/3 "2021-05-11T10:16:16Z")
I am using ES version 6.8.15 on all the 3 nodes ---
**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:** [May 11, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667/4 "2021-05-11T14:06:27Z")
How was Elasticsearch installed on these nodes? It does look like node 1 does not use the config file you posted as this should have resulted in a red state on that node. Can you verify that the node is usíng the expected file? You can also run the cat nodes api on the nodes and check that the roles are as expected. ---
**Author:** ![ravi-shanker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ravi-shanker/32/87347_2.png) [@ravi-shanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ravi-shanker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667/5 "2021-05-12T05:03:58Z")
followed below script to install elasticsearch wget -qO - [https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch](https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch) | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb [https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt](https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt) stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-6.x.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install elasticsearch sudo nano /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml sudo nano /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options sudo systemctl start elasticsearch sudo systemctl enable elasticsearch sudo systemctl status elasticsearch now node1 is in green state but not joining the cluster. how to verify if the node is using the expected file ? ---
**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:** [May 12, 2021, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667/6 "2021-05-12T06:11:39Z")
What is the output of the cat nodes API? ---
**Author:** ![ravi-shanker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ravi-shanker/32/87347_2.png) [@ravi-shanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ravi-shanker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 6:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667/7 "2021-05-12T06:21:41Z")
GET /\_cat/nodes showing node-1 and node-3 All nodes are in green status but node-2 is not joining the cluster. I am stuck with this issue and not able to proceed further. I have made all 3 nodes as master and data node i.e i have put node.master: true and node.data: true for all three nodes ---
**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:** [May 12, 2021, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667/8 "2021-05-12T07:15:27Z")
Please show the full output from all nodes for the cat nodes API. ---
**Author:** ![ravi-shanker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ravi-shanker/32/87347_2.png) [@ravi-shanker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ravi-shanker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667/9 "2021-05-12T07:33:04Z")
NODE1 ip\_node\_1 50 86 0 0.14 0.07 0.05 mdi \* node-1 ip\_node\_3 48 93 1 0.02 0.11 0.14 mdi - node-3 NODE2 ip\_node\_2 38 98 0 0.05 0.08 0.08 mdi \* node-2 NODE3 ip\_node\_1 50 86 0 0.11 0.06 0.05 mdi \* node-1 ip\_node\_3 49 96 10 0.26 0.16 0.16 mdi - node-3 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/node-not-joining-elasticsearch-cluster/272667/10 "2021-06-09T07:33:27Z")
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