# Shards failed message in Kibana - (5 of 28 Shards failed)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-failed-message-in-kibana-5-of-28-shards-failed/147279>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 4, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-failed-message-in-kibana-5-of-28-shards-failed/147279 "2018-09-04T23:18:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![sachinvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sachinvy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sachinvy)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-failed-message-in-kibana-5-of-28-shards-failed/147279/1 "2018-09-04T23:18:27Z")

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Can someone please provide me more details and guidance about how I deal with this issue?

We have dedicated ES cluster with following

Nodes: **11**

Indices: **57**

Memory: **37.9 GB / 118.7 GB**

Total Shards: **319**

Unassigned Shards: **0**

Documents: **2,719,323,165**

Data: **1.3 TB**

This error is only showing up for nessus-\* indexes. This has started showing up recently.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,  
Sachin

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**Author:** ![sachinvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sachinvy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sachinvy)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-failed-message-in-kibana-5-of-28-shards-failed/147279/2 "2018-09-05T14:13:38Z")

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I see only issue with nessus-\* index is data mapping for IP Address field. Older index have right mapping to type IP but newer index is mapped with Default. Do you think this could be a source of issue?

Please provide your valuable feedbacks and comments/suggestions.

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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:** [October 3, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-failed-message-in-kibana-5-of-28-shards-failed/147279/3 "2018-10-03T14:13:38Z")

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Closed on October 3, 2018, 2:13pm UTC

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