# Nodes split

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-split/9985>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 7, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-split/9985 "2012-12-07T13:57:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Marcin\_Dojwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcin_dojwa/32/2307_2.png) [@Marcin\_Dojwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcin_Dojwa)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-split/9985/1 "2012-12-07T13:57:35Z")

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Hi,

Ia have a cluster with 3 nodes. How can it be possible that 2 of the nodes  
are in green status showing number of nodes 3:  
{

- cluster\_name: "production",
- status: "green",
- timed\_out: false,
- number\_of\_nodes: 3,
- number\_of\_data\_nodes: 3,
- active\_primary\_shards: 60,
- active\_shards: 180,
- relocating\_shards: 0,
- initializing\_shards: 0,
- unassigned\_shards: 0

}

And the third one have status yellow showing number of nodes 2:  
{

- cluster\_name: "production",
- status: "yellow",
- timed\_out: false,
- number\_of\_nodes: 2,
- number\_of\_data\_nodes: 2,
- active\_primary\_shards: 60,
- active\_shards: 120,
- relocating\_shards: 0,
- initializing\_shards: 0,
- unassigned\_shards: 60

}

I assume that if 2 nodes can see all 3 nodes in the cluster then the third  
node is in that cluster too.

This situation happend after few weeks cluster stable working, nothing was  
restarted here.

What can I check to work this out ?

Thank you for help.  
Best regards.  
Marcin Dojwa

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**Author:** ![Marcin\_Dojwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcin_dojwa/32/2307_2.png) [@Marcin\_Dojwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcin_Dojwa)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-split/9985/2 "2012-12-07T14:11:05Z")

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The logs from each node: [https://gist.github.com/627e4616102437f87f1d](https://gist.github.com/627e4616102437f87f1d)  
node1 and node2 shows 3 nodes in cluster, node3 shows 2 nodes in cluster.

Thanks.  
Best regards.  
Marcin Dojwa

2012/12/7 Marcin Dojwa [m.dojwa@livechatinc.com](mailto:m.dojwa@livechatinc.com)

> Hi,
> 
> Ia have a cluster with 3 nodes. How can it be possible that 2 of the nodes  
> are in green status showing number of nodes 3:  
> {
> 
> - cluster\_name: "production",
> - status: "green",
> - timed\_out: false,
> - number\_of\_nodes: 3,
> - number\_of\_data\_nodes: 3,
> - active\_primary\_shards: 60,
> - active\_shards: 180,
> - relocating\_shards: 0,
> - initializing\_shards: 0,
> - unassigned\_shards: 0
> 
> }
> 
> And the third one have status yellow showing number of nodes 2:  
> {
> 
> - cluster\_name: "production",
> - status: "yellow",
> - timed\_out: false,
> - number\_of\_nodes: 2,
> - number\_of\_data\_nodes: 2,
> - active\_primary\_shards: 60,
> - active\_shards: 120,
> - relocating\_shards: 0,
> - initializing\_shards: 0,
> - unassigned\_shards: 60
> 
> }
> 
> I assume that if 2 nodes can see all 3 nodes in the cluster then the third  
> node is in that cluster too.
> 
> This situation happend after few weeks cluster stable working, nothing was  
> restarted here.
> 
> What can I check to work this out ?
> 
> Thank you for help.  
> Best regards.  
> Marcin Dojwa

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nodes-split/9985/3 "2017-07-06T03:00:51Z")

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