Proper way to restart elasticsearch in a cluster

[tegerei]

Hello,

I have a 3 node ES cluster. Sometimes I do restarts on some or all of the nodes. Despite disabling shard allocation as explained here, I still get failed shards after the restart is complete and shard re-allocation enabled.
I assume the process (Allocation, re-allocation) is complete when I get code 200, or acknowledge: true

[tegerei]

When you expand, this is what I get

[jessgarson]

Thanks for reaching out, @tegerei.

This guide might be a good starting point. This older post may be helpful too.

Best,
Jessica

[tegerei]

Thanks. I was making mistakes. I disabled shard allocation once in a rolling restart.

[jessgarson]

Yay, glad you figured it out. Thanks for sharing your solution, @tegerei.

Best,

Jessica