# Remove a node From a cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 29, 2018, 11:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-a-node-from-a-cluster/133668 "2018-05-29T11:12:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 14
**Author:** ![mjunaidmuzammil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mjunaidmuzammil/32/56910_2.png) [@mjunaidmuzammil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mjunaidmuzammil)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-a-node-from-a-cluster/133668/14 "2018-05-30T11:38:27Z")
How many shards per node do you have? I believe you have larger number of shards / node. A similar thread can be found here. > [@Elasticsearch status:red](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-status-red/109932): > > Hi team and all, Newbie to ELK and evaluating to put live soon, was all working until it stopped... no changes made just adding servers in one by one using winbeatlog direct to elasticsearch. Can someone tell me what I need to do to resolve this in simple language please? Bitnami ELK Stack 5.6.3 on Windows Server 2012 R2 C:\Users\administrator\>curl -XGET [http://localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty=t](http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=t) rue { "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch", "status" : "red", "timed\_out" : false, "number… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-a-node-from-a-cluster/133668)._