# Partial failure **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 18, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-failure/112153 "2017-12-18T06:06:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alex\_Davidovich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Alex\_Davidovich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Davidovich)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-failure/112153/1 "2017-12-18T06:06:21Z")
I have a 3 nodes cluster with 1 primary and 2 replica shards. I inserted a document and got this response: ``` IndexResponse[index=events_1513522587069,type=events,id=112,version=1,result=created,shards= {"total":3,"successful":1,"failed":1,"failures": [{"_index":"events_1513522587069","_shard":0,"_node":"87JEfX7tTYC9jIN3c-8hhQ","reason": {"type":"node_disconnected_exception","reason":"[node-2][172.16.65.117:9300] [indices:data/write/bulk[s][r]] disconnected"},"status":"INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR","primary":false}]}] ``` I understand that only 1 shard was able to persist the document (the successful one...), 1 failed. What about the third? In addition, why 1 shard is written when didn't get ack from the rest of the nodes? I don't want to have this behavior. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2017, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-failure/112153/2 "2017-12-18T07:21:59Z")
What version are you on? How many shards and replicas in the index? ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Davidovich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Alex\_Davidovich](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Davidovich)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-failure/112153/3 "2017-12-18T07:35:05Z")
Version 5.4. 1 index with 1 primary shard and 2 replicas. 3 nodes in the cluster. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-failure/112153/4 "2018-01-15T07:35:19Z")
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