# Start es cluster ,the health status is red

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-es-cluster-the-health-status-is-red/78947>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 17, 2017, 1:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-es-cluster-the-health-status-is-red/78947 "2017-03-17T01:05:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 6:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/start-es-cluster-the-health-status-is-red/78947/2 "2017-03-17T06:25:02Z")

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Why did you add:

```
gateway.expected_nodes: 5
gateway.recover_after_time: 10m
gateway.recover_after_nodes: 4
```

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