# Nodes restarting with shards initializing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-restarting-with-shards-initializing/289489>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-restarting-with-shards-initializing/289489 "2021-11-17T17:51:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Ayca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Ayca](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ayca)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-restarting-with-shards-initializing/289489/1 "2021-11-17T17:51:46Z")

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Our elastic cluster had some nodes restarted with a network outage and when they were back, we were monitoring the shard reallocations.

The question is, even on unaffected nodes were there shards in the state of "INITIALIZING". Considering all the previous affected nodes were up and no reallocation of shards were observed, why would the unaffected nodes display such initialisation?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-restarting-with-shards-initializing/289489/2 "2021-11-21T23:39:57Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

What version are you on?  
What is the output from `_cat/recovery?v`?

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**Author:** ![Ayca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Ayca](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ayca)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-restarting-with-shards-initializing/289489/3 "2021-11-25T09:30:50Z")

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Hi Mark,

We're running 2.4. The recovery command would be useful during the problem I would guess, at the moment the cluster has long recovered.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2021, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-restarting-with-shards-initializing/289489/4 "2021-11-25T10:06:01Z")

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2.4 is [EOL](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol) and no longer supported. You would be best off upgrading urgently.

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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:** [December 23, 2021, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-restarting-with-shards-initializing/289489/5 "2021-12-23T10:06:52Z")

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