# Phase out one specific node from cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phase-out-one-specific-node-from-cluster/188339>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 1, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phase-out-one-specific-node-from-cluster/188339 "2019-07-01T14:17:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![YvorL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9fc348/32.png) [@YvorL](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YvorL)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phase-out-one-specific-node-from-cluster/188339/1 "2019-07-01T14:17:52Z")

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HI!

I was reading on [cluster level shard allocation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/shards-allocation.html) and it seems that I can't set one node to "read-only" mode. There is not much room to re-allocate shards but I don't want to lose the data before necessary. However, I want to remove that specific node from the cluster as soon as possible.  
Is there a way to stop allocating shards on a specific node while it'd still serve search requests?

Thank you!

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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 29, 2019, 2:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/phase-out-one-specific-node-from-cluster/188339/2 "2019-07-29T14:29:36Z")

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