# \_restore shards failed

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-shards-failed/208190>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-shards-failed/208190 "2019-11-17T00:45:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 12:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-shards-failed/208190/1 "2019-11-17T00:45:06Z")

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Hello World!

I just used [\_restore](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/modules-snapshots.html#_restore) (Snapshot And Restore), yet ran into following issue:

```
"shards" : {
  "total" : 654,
  "failed" : 6,
  "successful" : 648

```

How does one figures out which shards have `failed`?

Please advise.

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**Author:** ![Armin\_Braun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/armin_braun/32/20092_2.png) [@Armin\_Braun](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Armin_Braun)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-shards-failed/208190/2 "2019-11-17T08:55:52Z")

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Hi @alexus

You could take a look at the [cat shards](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-shards.html) endpoint to see the status of all your shards. The shards that failed restore will show up in there as well with a failure reason.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2019, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/restore-shards-failed/208190/3 "2019-12-15T08:55:54Z")

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