# Unassigned shard after Kibana 4 joins cluster
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [January 24, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962 "2016-01-24T03:30:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Harvey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Harvey)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/1 "2016-01-24T03:30:12Z")
Hi all,
I am pretty new to ELK.
I am trying at this stage just to build ELK on a single node and I have Elasticsearch working fine until Kibana 4 adds its index in.
At this point the cluster goes yellow and I end up with one unassigned shard:
```
[root@centos-66-x64 ~]# curl localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty
{
"cluster_name" : "es01",
"status" : "yellow",
"timed_out" : false,
"number_of_nodes" : 1,
"number_of_data_nodes" : 1,
"active_primary_shards" : 6,
"active_shards" : 6,
"relocating_shards" : 0,
"initializing_shards" : 0,
"unassigned_shards" : 1,
"delayed_unassigned_shards" : 0,
"number_of_pending_tasks" : 0,
"number_of_in_flight_fetch" : 0,
"task_max_waiting_in_queue_millis" : 0,
"active_shards_percent_as_number" : 85.71428571428571
}
```
Indices:
```
[root@centos-66-x64 ~]# curl localhost:9200/_cat/indices
green open logstash-2016.07.27 1 0 28 0 34.2kb 34.2kb
green open logstash-2016.08.06 1 0 379 0 247.8kb 247.8kb
green open logstash-2016.07.26 1 0 361 0 245.6kb 245.6kb
green open logstash-2016.01.24 1 0 114 0 121.7kb 121.7kb
yellow open .kibana 1 1 1 0 3.1kb 3.1kb
green open logstash-2016.01.23 1 0 591 0 403.5kb 403.5kb
```
My Kibana config:
```
[root@centos-66-x64 ~]# cat /opt/kibana-4.3.1-linux-x64/config/kibana.yml
elasticsearch_url: http://localhost:9200
host: 0.0.0.0
pid.file: /var/run/kibana4/kibana4.pid
port: 5601
```
Let me know if other info is required. I'm hitting the 5000 character limit when I add log files.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 3:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/2 "2016-01-24T03:34:19Z")
Because KB creates an index, called `.kibana`, and it has one replica.
Given you have one node you cannot assign the primary and the replica to the same node, so it stays unassigned.
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Harvey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Harvey)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/3 "2016-01-24T04:58:35Z")
Thanks for your help. So do you mean there's really no clean way to run ELK all on a single node?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/4 "2016-01-24T04:59:35Z")
Define clean.
If you want a green cluster, just set replicas to 0 for all indices.
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Harvey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Harvey)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/5 "2016-01-24T06:59:11Z")
I see. So this works, as you say:
```
[root@centos-66-x64 ~]# curl 'localhost:9200/.kibana/_settings?pretty'
{
".kibana" : {
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"creation_date" : "1453603521524",
"number_of_shards" : "1",
"number_of_replicas" : "1",
"uuid" : "9eQozCRmQNimeB07HImGSQ",
"version" : {
"created" : "2010199"
}
}
}
}
}
```
Change settings:
```
[root@centos-66-x64 ~]# curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/.kibana/_settings' -d '{"index":{"number_of_replicas":0}}'
[root@centos-66-x64 ~]# curl 'localhost:9200/.kibana/_settings?pretty'
{
".kibana" : {
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"creation_date" : "1453603521524",
"number_of_shards" : "1",
"number_of_replicas" : "0",
"uuid" : "9eQozCRmQNimeB07HImGSQ",
"version" : {
"created" : "2010199"
}
}
}
}
}
[root@centos-66-x64 ~]# curl localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty
{
"cluster_name" : "es01",
"status" : "green",
"timed_out" : false,
"number_of_nodes" : 1,
"number_of_data_nodes" : 1,
"active_primary_shards" : 6,
"active_shards" : 6,
"relocating_shards" : 0,
"initializing_shards" : 0,
"unassigned_shards" : 0,
"delayed_unassigned_shards" : 0,
"number_of_pending_tasks" : 0,
"number_of_in_flight_fetch" : 0,
"task_max_waiting_in_queue_millis" : 0,
"active_shards_percent_as_number" : 100.0
}
```
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Harvey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Harvey)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/6 "2016-01-24T07:00:48Z")
It looks like there is no way to tell Kibana 4 not to set replicas on its index in the first place however?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 7:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/7 "2016-01-24T07:05:41Z")
The default is to have one replica, irrespective of the index type.
It's not really worth worrying about unless you are constantly recreating the `.kibana` index. And if you are, just use `curl -XPUT localhost:9200/*/_settings -d '{ "index" : { "number_of_replicas" : 0 } }'` to make things green.
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Harvey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Harvey)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/8 "2016-01-24T07:36:00Z")
Well it's a bit of an issue as people will be using config management systems like Puppet, as I am. I'm trying to spin all of this up on one node for the purpose of serverspec testing in a CI pipeline. I can do it using a Puppet exec, but it's ugly.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/9 "2016-01-24T07:36:59Z")
Then does it really matter if the cluster is yellow?
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Harvey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Harvey)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2016, 7:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/10 "2016-01-24T07:39:28Z")
Well it matters in so far as one of my acceptance criteria is that the code builds a green cluster. 🙂 Anyhow, thanks very much for your help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shard-after-kibana-4-joins-cluster/39962/12 "2017-07-06T13:32:37Z")