# Status changed from yellow to red - Elasticsearch plugin is red

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-elasticsearch-plugin-is-red/147320>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 5, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-elasticsearch-plugin-is-red/147320 "2018-09-05T07:07:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![maithreyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@maithreyi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/maithreyi)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 7:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-elasticsearch-plugin-is-red/147320/1 "2018-09-05T07:07:14Z")

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Hi,

I tried to upgrade elasticsearch from 2.2 to 5.6. The indices are showing yellow state. the index .kibana is also showing yellow state. IWhile i was using 2.4 elasticsearch, I was using 4.4 Kibana version. After upgrading elasticsearch from 2.2 to 5.6, i removed the existing verion of 4.4 kibana and gave a fresh installation through rpm for kibana 5.6. But i am getting " Status changed from yellow to red - Elasticsearch plugin is red" error in kibana log file. Can some one please help me with this issue?

curl -XGET '172.31.20.37:9200/\_cat/indices?v&pretty'  
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size  
yellow open test AMB7egueQMq55a-tU6CHjw 5 1 0 0 955b 955b  
yellow open mobiquity-logs-2018.09.04.09 UL3KQKqvSXihpB8GhdSMMw 5 1 4 0 33.6kb 33.6kb  
yellow open .kibana fpEth\_zMSYGMziwuArZxGg 1 1 1 0 3.2kb 3.2kb

Kibana log file

{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-09-05T05:32:16Z","tags":["status","plugin:timelion@5.6.0","info"],"pid":1798,"state":"green","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to green - Ready","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}  
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-09-05T05:32:16Z","tags":["listening","info"],"pid":1798,"message":"Server running at [http://0.0.0.0:5601](http://0.0.0.0:5601)"}  
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-09-05T05:32:16Z","tags":["status","ui settings","info"],"pid":1798,"state":"yellow","message":"Status changed from uninitialized to yellow - Elasticsearch plugin is yellow","prevState":"uninitialized","prevMsg":"uninitialized"}  
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-09-05T05:32:17Z","tags":["status","plugin:elasticsearch@5.6.0","error"],"pid":1798,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - all shards failed: [unsupported\_operation\_exception] null","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Waiting for Elasticsearch"}  
{"type":"log","@timestamp":"2018-09-05T05:32:17Z","tags":["status","ui settings","error"],"pid":1798,"state":"red","message":"Status changed from yellow to red - Elasticsearch plugin is red","prevState":"yellow","prevMsg":"Elasticsearch plugin is yellow"}

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-elasticsearch-plugin-is-red/147320/2 "2018-09-05T12:49:21Z")

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Where any of your indices created in Elasticsearch 1.x? if so, those need to be re-index in 2.4 first - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/reindex-upgrade.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/5.6/reindex-upgrade.html)

Can you check your elasticsearch logs? Look for warnings that might help explain why the indices are yellow.

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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, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-changed-from-yellow-to-red-elasticsearch-plugin-is-red/147320/3 "2018-10-03T12:49:32Z")

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