# Problem adding rivers

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-adding-rivers/19994>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 28, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-adding-rivers/19994 "2014-09-28T17:57:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Eric\_Stillwagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Eric\_Stillwagon](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eric_Stillwagon)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-adding-rivers/19994/1 "2014-09-28T17:57:20Z")

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Hello,  
I'm working in a 12 server cluster, and I'm trying to restart Rivers and  
running into a problem. I have 3 in particular that always seem to want to  
go to the same host, and I can get two of them to work, but when I go to  
add the 3rd, it doesn't get assigned to as host and never starts. If I  
restart Elasticsearch on the host that it seems to prefer, then the 3rd one  
starts, but the first two die. There are no errors in the Elasticsearch  
log, it just stops receiving updates.  
Is there a way to maybe force these 3 Rivers to go to other hosts? Or can  
I look into this to see why they don't want to cooperate on the host  
they're being assigned to? These are small subset of the total number of  
Rivers that we're running, but it seems to either a problem with this host,  
or these 3 rivers, but I don't have a clue where to start looking.

Any information you can provide would be appreciated.

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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, 12:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problem-adding-rivers/19994/2 "2017-07-06T00:59:30Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 12:59am UTC