# Shard Allocation taking time

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-allocation-taking-time/230484
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-allocation-taking-time/230484 "2020-04-30T07:15:40Z")
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### Author: ![Thilak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@Thilak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Thilak)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-allocation-taking-time/230484/1 "2020-04-30T07:15:40Z")

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Hello, Whenever we are adding a new node to the cluster. Exactly two shards in a particular index are taking a long time around ( 30 minutes ) to allocate. This is happening whenever we are adding a new node to the cluster.

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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: [May 28, 2020, 7:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-allocation-taking-time/230484/2 "2020-05-28T07:25:29Z")

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