# Shard is INITIALIZING State

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-is-initializing-state/59406>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 31, 2016, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-is-initializing-state/59406 "2016-08-31T09:43:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Sriranga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@Sriranga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sriranga)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-is-initializing-state/59406/1 "2016-08-31T09:43:17Z")

</div>

My cluster consists of 1 master and 4 data nodes and the index has 4 shards each allocated to each data node.

If one of the data node is restarted the shards stuck at INITIALIZING state for very long time (more than 10 hrs ). please find the output of the commands

[http://ip:9200/\_cat/recovery](http://ip:9200/_cat/recovery) gives

store translog

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [August 31, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-is-initializing-state/59406/2 "2016-08-31T09:46:16Z")

</div>

Does this relate to the [https://www.elastic.co/cloud](https://www.elastic.co/cloud) service?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Sriranga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@Sriranga](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sriranga)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-is-initializing-state/59406/3 "2016-08-31T09:46:51Z")

</div>

No its on ec2

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [August 31, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-is-initializing-state/59406/4 "2016-08-31T09:48:37Z")

</div>

Then please move this to the Elasticsearch category, this one is for Elastic Cloud users 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shard-is-initializing-state/59406/5 "2016-09-03T09:48:52Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 3 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.