# Recover indices after power outage?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recover-indices-after-power-outage/94148>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 21, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recover-indices-after-power-outage/94148 "2017-07-21T18:53:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![fsimmler2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4af34b/32.png) [@fsimmler2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fsimmler2)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recover-indices-after-power-outage/94148/1 "2017-07-21T18:53:56Z")

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Hello All,  
Our server room housing the majority of our elasticsearch nodes was powered down without warning. After getting the servers rebooted, Kibana, Marvel, etc. would not come back up with data. The cluster shows green but when I run **curl -X GET '[http://localhost:9200/\_cat/indices?pretty](http://localhost:9200/_cat/indices?pretty)'**

I get the following example on all most of the indices:  
_red open .marvel-es-1-2017.07.18_\*  
_red open .marvel-es-1-2017.07.15_\*  
_red open .marvel-es-1-2017.07.16_\*

When I try to close or reindex one of the indices on the list, I get:  
{"error":{"root\_cause":[{"type":"remote\_transport\_exception","reason":"[socelkd012][16x.1xx.16x.222:9300][indices:admin/close]"}],"type":"null\_pointer\_exception","reason":null},"status":500}

Any guidance would be very 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:** [August 18, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recover-indices-after-power-outage/94148/2 "2017-08-18T18:54:48Z")

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