# Red status elastic **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 7, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687 "2017-11-07T13:00:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elk2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f14d63/32.png) [@elk2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk2)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 1:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/1 "2017-11-07T13:00:49Z")
From 1 week I have a problem with elasticsearch. Cluster status is red and I don't know how to return to green state curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty' "cluster\_name" : "clusterelastic, "status" : "red", "timed\_out" : false, "number\_of\_nodes" : 10, "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 7, "active\_primary\_shards" : 541, "active\_shards" : 935, "relocating\_shards" : 2, "initializing\_shards" : 3, "unassigned\_shards" : 146, "delayed\_unassigned\_shards" : 0, "number\_of\_pending\_tasks" : 1, "number\_of\_in\_flight\_fetch" : 0, "task\_max\_waiting\_in\_queue\_millis" : 0, "active\_shards\_percent\_as\_number" : 86.25461254612546 curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/\_cat/nodes?v' host heap.percent ram.percent load node.role master name 1 12 91 9.42 d - nod1 2 3 87 0.00 - - kibana 3 35 98 0.01 d - nod2 4 0 4 0.00 d m nod3 5 12 97 1.14 d - nod4 6 38 99 0.81 d - nod5 7 15 93 0.00 - m nod6 8 21 91 3.14 d - nod7 9 79 96 0.22 - \* nod8 10 61 96 4.61 d m nod9 shards disk.indices disk.used disk.avail disk.total disk.percent node 98 298.7gb 597.9gb 164.2gb 762.1gb 78 nod1 148 375.8gb 456.2gb 862.4gb 1.2tb 34 nod2 6 22.4gb 431.5gb 330.6gb 762.1gb 56 nod3 195 453.7gb 493.3gb 251.3gb 744.7gb 66 nod4 144 347.1gb 386.5gb 383.2gb 769.8gb 50 nod5 152 366.3gb 406gb 363.8gb 769.8gb 52 nod9 195 466.9gb 521.7gb 522.4gb 1tb 49 nod7 146 UNASSIGNED ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 1:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/2 "2017-11-07T13:20:16Z")
Which version of Elasticsearch are you using? Are all nodes on exactly the same version of Elasticsearch? Do you have enough disk space available on all data nodes (\<85% utilisation)? ---
**Author:** ![elk2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f14d63/32.png) [@elk2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk2)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/3 "2017-11-08T15:22:52Z")
> [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](#): > > Which version of Elasticsearch Version is "number" : "2.4.2", "lucene\_version" : "5.5.2" and I have available space on all data nodes. I had to stop elasticsearch service on master node and restart service. I don't know what appened but now work normally. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/4 "2017-11-08T15:24:05Z")
How many master eligible nodes do you have? ---
**Author:** ![elk2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f14d63/32.png) [@elk2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk2)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/5 "2017-11-08T15:38:31Z")
curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/\_cat/nodes?v' host heap.percent ram.percent load node.role master name 1 12 91 9.42 d - nod1 2 3 87 0.00 - - kibana 3 35 98 0.01 d - nod2 4 0 4 0.00 d m nod3 5 12 97 1.14 d - nod4 6 38 99 0.81 d - nod5 7 15 93 0.00 - m nod6 8 21 91 3.14 d - nod7 9 79 96 0.22 - \* nod8 10 61 96 4.61 d m nod9 nod3 nod6 nod8 and nod9 ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/6 "2017-11-08T15:40:49Z")
Do you have `minimum_master_nodes` set to `3`? ---
**Author:** ![elk2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f14d63/32.png) [@elk2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk2)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/7 "2017-11-08T15:48:21Z")
> [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](#): > > minimum\_master\_nodes set to 3 curl -XGET localhost:9200/\_cluster/settings {"persistent":{},"transient":{"cluster":{"routing":{"allocation":{"enable":"all"}}}}} ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/8 "2017-11-08T15:52:21Z")
I was referring to [discovery.zen.minimum\_master\_nodes](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/modules-node.html#split-brain) in elasticsearch.yml. ---
**Author:** ![elk2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f14d63/32.png) [@elk2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elk2)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/9 "2017-11-08T16:26:00Z")
> [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](#): > > elasticsearch.yml yes is 3 ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/10 "2017-11-08T16:27:10Z")
Excellent. Just wanted to check, as that can have interesting side effects... ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-elastic/106687/11 "2017-12-06T16:27:20Z")
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