# RED status in elastic search indices

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-in-elastic-search-indices/142200
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 30, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-in-elastic-search-indices/142200 "2018-07-30T14:31:38Z")
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### 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: [July 30, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/red-status-in-elastic-search-indices/142200/3 "2018-07-30T15:02:09Z")

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I thought we established that you probably have too many shards and needed to do something about it in [this thread](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-throwing-error-503/142163). Have you already addressed that?

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