Shards not sharing equally periodically

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
1

Hi Shay,

We have configured the ES in our live environment and periodically we facing this issue, that shards are not sharing equally.
During this time we need to stop the ES, remove all data nodes and restart ES. What would be the work around to fix this issue permanently. I have placed my config details below. Kindly help us to figure out the issue and get a permanent solution for this issue. Thanks in advance.

network :
host : 10.1.0.8

gateway:
type: fs
fs:
location: \10.1.0.6\ElasticSearchGateway

indices:
memory:
index_buffer_size : 20%
index:
gateway:
snapshot_on_close: false

cluster:
name: evsys1

node:
data: false

index:
number_of_shards : 6
number_of_replicas : 1

bootstrap:
mlockall : true

-SRR

2

Hi srrIN

We have configured the ES in our live environment and periodically we facing
this issue, that shards are not sharing equally.

What version of ES are you using? I know that various balancing issues
were fixed on 0.16.

clint

3

Hi Clinton.,
Thank you for the reply. Currently we are using ES. 0.15.2.

Do I need to upgrade to 0.16.0 to fix these issues?