# Recreating Shard failures

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recreating-shard-failures/150351>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 28, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recreating-shard-failures/150351 "2018-09-28T13:41:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![riscado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@riscado](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/riscado)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recreating-shard-failures/150351/1 "2018-09-28T13:41:03Z")

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Hi,

when using the elasticsearch Java client, is there any easy way to recreate shard failures. Where either the primary or both primary and replicas fail to respond.

I'm trying to validate a test where I need to check that SearchResponse::getFailedShards is populated.

Thanks

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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:** [October 26, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recreating-shard-failures/150351/2 "2018-10-26T13:41:04Z")

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