# One of the Shard stuck at INITIALIZING state

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-of-the-shard-stuck-at-initializing-state/58522>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 21, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-of-the-shard-stuck-at-initializing-state/58522 "2016-08-21T07:16:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sriranga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@Sriranga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sriranga)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-of-the-shard-stuck-at-initializing-state/58522/1 "2016-08-21T07:16:26Z")

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I have a Master + 2 Data nodes type cluster. One of the shards related to one of the indices is INITIALIZING in state since a long time. what can be done to get rid of this and make the cluster Green

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**Author:** ![Sriranga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@Sriranga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sriranga)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-of-the-shard-stuck-at-initializing-state/58522/2 "2016-08-21T20:06:29Z")

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Its been 13 hrs and the shard is still **INITIALIZING**

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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:** [August 22, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-of-the-shard-stuck-at-initializing-state/58522/3 "2016-08-22T00:50:20Z")

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Check `_cat/recovery`, what does it show?

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**Author:** ![Sriranga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@Sriranga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sriranga)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 5:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-of-the-shard-stuck-at-initializing-state/58522/4 "2016-08-22T05:35:51Z")

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> [@warkolm](#):
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> \_cat/recovery

It says **store translog** whereas for the other shards it says **store done**

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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 5, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/one-of-the-shard-stuck-at-initializing-state/58522/5 "2017-07-05T22:26:18Z")

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