# Rebalance is Not Working In Elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rebalance-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/345003
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rebalance-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/345003 "2023-10-13T12:44:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Debasis\_Mallick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Debasis_Mallick)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rebalance-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/345003/1 "2023-10-13T12:44:43Z")
Hi Team,
I had below scenario in my Elasticsearch setup.
The cluster previously consists of 2 nodes and one index having docs around 125M.
I had added one more node to the cluster but the data is not getting distributed uniformly across three nodes.
So I just want to know is rebalance will happen automatically or we need to trigger manually and how to check the progress of this rebalance activity.
Thanks,
Debasis
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rebalance-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/345003/2 "2023-10-13T12:57:56Z")
How many primary and replica shards do you have in the cluster?
Are all nodes running exactly the same vesion?
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### Author:  [@Debasis\_Mallick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Debasis_Mallick)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rebalance-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/345003/3 "2023-10-13T13:26:24Z")
@Christian_Dahlqvist Thanks for response. Please find the below response to your questions.
How many primary and replica shards do you have in the cluster?
Ans:- It is the default setting while creating Index (Primary shard 1 and replica 1).
Are all nodes running exactly the same version?.
Ans: Yes (8.9.x).
Thanks,
Debasis
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rebalance-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/345003/4 "2023-10-13T13:34:53Z")
Elasticsearch balances data at the shard level. If you only have one index with one primary and one replica shard, those 2 shards can only be spread across 2 nodes.
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### Author:  [@Debasis\_Mallick](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Debasis_Mallick)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2023, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rebalance-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/345003/5 "2023-10-18T06:24:52Z")
Thanks @Christian_Dahlqvist for response. Can you please helps me to understand below two points.
1. If I increase the shard count then the rebalance process will happen automatically or we need to trigger manually.
2. Could you please share me any blog or doc link which I can follow and perform the rebalance.
3. Is there anyway to monitor the progress of rebalance process from Kibana dashboard.
Thanks,
Debasis
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2023, 6:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rebalance-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/345003/6 "2023-11-15T06:25:51Z")
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