# Remove Node **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 22, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-node/3960 "2011-02-22T12:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Karussell1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/50afbb/32.png) [@Karussell1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karussell1)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-node/3960/1 "2011-02-22T12:35:21Z")
Hi, how can I safely remove a node? I started with 3 ES instances then the shards are distributed to those node. Now I would like to run ES with only 1 node but while indexing I get an error \* indicating that the shards are missing of the node which I shutdown via the API. Also when querying a lot of docs are missing and the facet count is wrong. When starting up again all nodes all is fine. How can I handle removing nodes, so that all shards are available to the remaining nodes? Regards, Peter. - [168]: index [newtwindex], type [tweet], id [39839915390799873], message [UnavailableShardsException[[newtwindex][0] [2] shardIt, [0] active : Timeout waiting for [1m], request: org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.BulkShardRequest@16ff83ca]] ---
**Author:** ![Clinton\_Gormley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-node/3960/2 "2011-02-22T12:48:51Z")
Hi > Now I would like to run ES with only 1 node but while indexing I get > an error \* indicating that the shards are missing of the node which I > shutdown via the API. Also when querying a lot of docs are missing and > the facet count is wrong. When starting up again all nodes all is > fine. That should work. Was your cluster health green before you shut down? Could you gist a recreation? clint ---
**Author:** ![Karussell1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/50afbb/32.png) [@Karussell1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karussell1)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-node/3960/3 "2011-02-22T13:26:40Z")
> Could you gist a recreation? What do you mean should I gist? The logs? ---
**Author:** ![Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas_vlcek1/32/819_2.png) [@Lukas\_Vlcek1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lukas_Vlcek1)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-node/3960/4 "2011-02-22T13:31:32Z")
Hi, I think Clinton refers to [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help/) [http://www.elasticsearch.org/help/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help/)If there is a simple way how the issues can be recreated with curl command then that would be helpful. Regards, Lukas On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Karussell [tableyourtime@googlemail.com](mailto:tableyourtime@googlemail.com)wrote: > > Could you gist a recreation? > > What do you mean should I gist? The logs? ---
**Author:** ![Adriano\_Ferreira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adriano_ferreira/32/3228_2.png) [@Adriano\_Ferreira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Adriano_Ferreira)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-node/3960/5 "2011-02-22T13:32:23Z")
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Karussell [tableyourtime@googlemail.com](mailto:tableyourtime@googlemail.com)wrote: > > Could you gist a recreation? > > What do you mean should I gist? The logs? He meant that: [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help/) ---
**Author:** ![Karussell1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/50afbb/32.png) [@Karussell1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Karussell1)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-node/3960/6 "2011-02-22T13:35:25Z")
> Was your cluster health green before you shut down? Ok, this was the problem. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-node/3960/7 "2017-07-06T04:11:43Z")