# Shard Failed. Null Node

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-null-node/317204>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [October 21, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-null-node/317204 "2022-10-21T13:43:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Shep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Shep](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shep)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-null-node/317204/1 "2022-10-21T13:43:51Z")

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Kibana 7.14 I am getting a "no\_shard\_available\_action\_exception". It seems to be suggesting the reason is because the node is "null". Any Advice?

```auto
{   
"took": 65,   
"timed_out": false,   
"_shards": {     
	"total": 13,     
	"successful": 12,     
	"skipped": 11,     
	"failed": 1,     
	"failures": [ {         
		"shard": 0,         
		"index": "filebeat-7.14.0-2022.03.02-000008", 
		"node": null,         
		"reason": {           
			"type": "no_shard_available_action_exception",           					
            "reason": null,           
			"index_uuid": "K4Pb-yTNSzuXx8CJE6GKFQ",           
			"shard": "0",           
			"index": "filebeat-7.14.0-2022.03.02-000008"         
			}       
		} ]   
	},   
"hits": {     
	"total": 107,     
	"max_score": null,     
	"hits": [] },   
"aggregations": {     
	"0": {       
		"doc_count_error_upper_bound": 0,       	
		"sum_other_doc_count": 0,       
		"buckets": [ {           
			"1": {             
				"value": 107           
			},           
		"key": "event",           
		"doc_count": 107        
 } ] } } }

```

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2022, 11:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-null-node/317204/2 "2022-10-23T23:07:29Z")

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Is the index fully allocated in your cluster?  
Use `_cat/allocation/filebeat-7.14.0-2022.03.02-000008?v` to check.

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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:** [November 18, 2022, 6:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-null-node/317204/3 "2022-11-18T18:59:42Z")

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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 16, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-null-node/317204/4 "2022-12-16T15:56:06Z")

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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:** [January 13, 2023, 3:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-failed-null-node/317204/5 "2023-01-13T15:56:48Z")

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