Replica Shard status changing from Initializing to unassigned for long time, finally in unassigned from last few hours

Hi,

For an index of 20 shards and 3 replicas, we have around 4 replica shards which are in unassigned state for long time. It is going to Initializing state and coming back to unassigned. Its been few hours and same thing is happening(Intitializing <-> UnAssigned)

No errors/messages is seen in the es log file too.

What could be the issue here, please give some pointers here, to resolve this situation.

Primary and other 2 replicas shards status is started, but the size and documents count is not show (_cat/shards). Please see below

customevent 15 p STARTED      52437835 126.3gb 10.158.36.204 ITTESPROD-DATA3 
customevent 15 r STARTED      52437835 126.3gb 10.158.36.211 ITTESPROD-DATA1 
customevent 15 r STARTED      52437835 126.3gb 10.158.36.212 ITTESPROD-DATA2 
customevent 15 r STARTED      52437835 126.3gb 10.158.36.208 ITTESPROD-DATA4 
customevent 11 p STARTED                       10.158.36.204 ITTESPROD-DATA3 
customevent 11 r STARTED                       10.158.36.212 ITTESPROD-DATA2 
customevent 11 r STARTED                       10.158.36.208 ITTESPROD-DATA4 
customevent 11 r INITIALIZING                  10.158.36.198 ITTESPROD-DATA5 
customevent 1  p STARTED      51920720 125.5gb 10.158.36.213 ITTESPROD-DATA6 
customevent 1  r STARTED      51920720 125.5gb 10.158.36.204 ITTESPROD-DATA3 
customevent 1  r STARTED      51920720 125.5gb 10.158.36.211 ITTESPROD-DATA1 
customevent 1  r STARTED      51920720 125.5gb 10.158.36.208 ITTESPROD-DATA4 
customevent 13 p STARTED      52446822 126.6gb 10.158.36.204 ITTESPROD-DATA3 
customevent 13 r STARTED      52446822 126.6gb 10.158.36.211 ITTESPROD-DATA1 
customevent 13 r STARTED      52446822 126.6gb 10.158.36.212 ITTESPROD-DATA2 
customevent 13 r STARTED      52446822 126.6gb 10.158.36.208 ITTESPROD-DATA4 
customevent 5  p STARTED      52298680 126.8gb 10.158.36.204 ITTESPROD-DATA3 
customevent 5  r STARTED      52298680 126.8gb 10.158.36.211 ITTESPROD-DATA1 
customevent 5  r STARTED      52298680 126.8gb 10.158.36.212 ITTESPROD-DATA2 
customevent 5  r STARTED      52298680 126.8gb 10.158.36.208 ITTESPROD-DATA4 
customevent 2  p STARTED      52269976 126.7gb 10.158.36.204 ITTESPROD-DATA3 
customevent 2  r STARTED      52269976 126.7gb 10.158.36.211 ITTESPROD-DATA1 
customevent 2  r STARTED      52269976 126.7gb 10.158.36.212 ITTESPROD-DATA2 
customevent 2  r STARTED      52269976 126.7gb 10.158.36.208 ITTESPROD-DATA4 
customevent 19 p STARTED                       10.158.36.204 ITTESPROD-DATA3 
customevent 19 r INITIALIZING                  10.158.36.211 ITTESPROD-DATA1 
customevent 19 r STARTED                       10.158.36.212 ITTESPROD-DATA2 
customevent 19 r STARTED                       10.158.36.208 ITTESPROD-DATA4 
customevent 18 p STARTED                       10.158.36.204 ITTESPROD-DATA3 
customevent 18 r STARTED                       10.158.36.212 ITTESPROD-DATA2 
customevent 18 r STARTED                       10.158.36.208 ITTESPROD-DATA4 
customevent 18 r UNASSIGNED                                                  
customevent 16 p STARTED      52363036   127gb 10.158.36.204 ITTESPROD-DATA3 
customevent 16 r STARTED      52363036   127gb 10.158.36.211 ITTESPROD-DATA1

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