# Unassigned Shards when New Index was created: Cluster Yellow **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [January 19, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-when-new-index-was-created-cluster-yellow/323483 "2023-01-19T07:40:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rpraveenverma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rpraveenverma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rpraveenverma)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 7:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-when-new-index-was-created-cluster-yellow/323483/1 "2023-01-19T07:40:50Z")
New Index Creation led to Unassigned Shards and Yellow Cluster State. **Context :** It happened when relocation for one node was already in progress. Checked explanation for its state. It says : Relocation Throttled , reached the limit of incoming shard recoveries. "current\_state" : "unassigned", "unassigned\_info" : { "reason" : "INDEX\_CREATED", "at" : "2023-01-18T16:03:40.435Z", "last\_allocation\_status" : "no\_attempt" }, is it expected Behaviour ? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 8:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-when-new-index-was-created-cluster-yellow/323483/2 "2023-01-19T08:02:19Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃 What is the output from the [`_cluster/stats?pretty&human` API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.4/cluster-stats.html)? Can you also provide the full output of `GET _cluster/allocation/explain`. ---
**Author:** ![rpraveenverma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rpraveenverma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rpraveenverma)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-when-new-index-was-created-cluster-yellow/323483/3 "2023-01-19T08:09:04Z")
```auto _cluster/stats { "_nodes" : { "total" : 5, "successful" : 5, "failed" : 0 }, "timestamp" : 1674115649027, "status" : "green", "indices" : { "count" : 684, "shards" : { "total" : 6840, "primaries" : 3420, "replication" : 1.0, "index" : { "shards" : { "min" : 10, "max" : 10, "avg" : 10.0 }, "primaries" : { "min" : 5, "max" : 5, "avg" : 5.0 }, "replication" : { "min" : 1.0, "max" : 1.0, "avg" : 1.0 } } }, "docs" : { "count" : 2697983230, "deleted" : 230170293 }, "store" : { "size_in_bytes" : 4739618005659 }, "fielddata" : { "memory_size_in_bytes" : 0, "evictions" : 0 }, "query_cache" : { "memory_size_in_bytes" : 3750347245, "total_count" : 18269506365, "hit_count" : 6563380406, "miss_count" : 11706125959, "cache_size" : 1408458, "cache_count" : 6881466, "evictions" : 5473008 }, "completion" : { "size_in_bytes" : 0 }, "segments" : { "count" : 94583, "memory_in_bytes" : 17185568921, "terms_memory_in_bytes" : 14031391435, "stored_fields_memory_in_bytes" : 1364582832, "term_vectors_memory_in_bytes" : 0, "norms_memory_in_bytes" : 91063104, "points_memory_in_bytes" : 951154810, "doc_values_memory_in_bytes" : 747376740, "index_writer_memory_in_bytes" : 0, "version_map_memory_in_bytes" : 0, "fixed_bit_set_memory_in_bytes" : 0, "max_unsafe_auto_id_timestamp" : -1, "file_sizes" : { } } }, "nodes" : { "count" : { "total" : 5, "data" : 5, "coordinating_only" : 0, "master" : 5, "ingest" : 5 }, "versions" : [ "6.8.22" ], "os" : { "available_processors" : 80, "allocated_processors" : 80, "names" : [ { "name" : "Linux", "count" : 5 } ], "pretty_names" : [ { "pretty_name" : "Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS", "count" : 4 }, { "pretty_name" : "Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS", "count" : 1 } ], "mem" : { "total_in_bytes" : 166532775936, "free_in_bytes" : 16606953472, "used_in_bytes" : 149925822464, "free_percent" : 10, "used_percent" : 90 } }, "process" : { "cpu" : { "percent" : 10 }, "open_file_descriptors" : { "min" : 550, "max" : 6102, "avg" : 4905 } }, "jvm" : { "max_uptime_in_millis" : 23209843391, "versions" : [ { "version" : "1.8.0_312", "vm_name" : "OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM", "vm_version" : "25.312-b07", "vm_vendor" : "Private Build", "count" : 4 }, { "version" : "1.8.0_212", "vm_name" : "OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM", "vm_version" : "25.212-b03", "vm_vendor" : "Oracle Corporation", "count" : 1 } ], "mem" : { "heap_used_in_bytes" : 45718811192, "heap_max_in_bytes" : 82700533760 }, "threads" : 999 }, "fs" : { "total_in_bytes" : 9176508006400, "free_in_bytes" : 4369979158528, "available_in_bytes" : 4369979158528 }, "plugins" : [ { "name" : "discovery-ec2", "version" : "6.8.22", "elasticsearch_version" : "6.8.22", "java_version" : "1.8", "description" : "The EC2 discovery plugin allows to use AWS API for the unicast discovery mechanism.", "classname" : "org.elasticsearch.discovery.ec2.Ec2DiscoveryPlugin", "extended_plugins" : [], "has_native_controller" : false }, { "name" : "repository-s3", "version" : "6.8.22", "elasticsearch_version" : "6.8.22", "java_version" : "1.8", "description" : "The S3 repository plugin adds S3 repositories", "classname" : "org.elasticsearch.repositories.s3.S3RepositoryPlugin", "extended_plugins" : [], "has_native_controller" : false } ], "network_types" : { "transport_types" : { "security4" : 5 }, "http_types" : { "security4" : 5 } } } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 9:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-when-new-index-was-created-cluster-yellow/323483/4 "2023-01-19T09:32:54Z")
A few things; 1. You're running a very old version. 6.8 is [EOL](https://www.elastic.co/support/eol) and no longer supported so please upgrade. 2. You are over sharded, you have 1,368 per node which is way too many and likely the root cause of your issue. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unassigned-shards-when-new-index-was-created-cluster-yellow/323483/5 "2023-02-16T09:33:10Z")
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