# Status Yellow **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [February 20, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646 "2018-02-20T13:14:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![atom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atom/32/34758_2.png) [@atom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atom)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 1:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/1 "2018-02-20T13:14:16Z")
Hi, i have just did an upgrade of Elasticsearch and my server successfully started and is up for half an hour now. The status changed from red to yellow and stayed yellow for 25 minutes now. Should i be concerned about this? Regards, Ahmet ---
**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:** [February 20, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/2 "2018-02-20T18:05:13Z")
How many nodes do you have? ---
**Author:** ![atom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atom/32/34758_2.png) [@atom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atom)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/3 "2018-02-21T07:15:11Z")
Hi David, i have one single note storing log information of a webserver. ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/4 "2018-02-21T07:48:06Z")
Yellow status means that replicas are not allocated. Which is normal as you can't allocate replicas with only one node. To make your cluster green, increase the number of nodes or decrease the number of replicas to 0. ---
**Author:** ![atom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atom/32/34758_2.png) [@atom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atom)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/5 "2018-02-21T08:08:34Z")
this happened after an upgrade from 5.6 to 6.x. Where do i need to make these changes and how does this affect elasticsearch? ---
**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:** [February 21, 2018, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/6 "2018-02-21T09:26:56Z")
Can you run: ```auto GET _cat/indices?v ``` ---
**Author:** ![atom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atom/32/34758_2.png) [@atom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atom)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/7 "2018-02-21T20:43:16Z")
i will upload it tomorrow in the office 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![atom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atom/32/34758_2.png) [@atom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atom)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/8 "2018-02-22T07:55:44Z")
Hi David, this is the output i get: [https://paste.ee/e/Ywatp/0](https://paste.ee/e/Ywatp/0) ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/9 "2018-02-22T08:10:23Z")
If you can provide the full output of the [cluster stats API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/cluster-stats.html), it would provide some additional information about the cluster and be easier to read. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2018, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/10 "2018-02-22T08:13:13Z")
So you have one replica per index which is not allocated as I said. Just change this number or increase the number of nodes. BTW you have too many shards per nodes here. ---
**Author:** ![atom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/atom/32/34758_2.png) [@atom](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atom)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/11 "2018-02-22T09:23:00Z")
Ok will change the settings after solving my other issues 🙂 Thank you so much. Both of you 👍 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/status-yellow/120646/12 "2018-03-22T09:23:08Z")
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