# Warning Courier Fetch

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-courier-fetch/125736
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 27, 2018, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-courier-fetch/125736 "2018-03-27T11:10:02Z")
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### Author: ![Hanen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Hanen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hanen)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2018, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-courier-fetch/125736/1 "2018-03-27T11:10:02Z")

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Hi,

recently I got the warning:  
Courier Fetch: 17 of 100 shards failed.  
what cause it and what can I do to fix it?

( I added a field geo\_location) to create the cordinate map) when tapping new visualize==\> cordinate map==\> select field

I got this warning

 ![warning%20geoip](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/0/7/07b8f1500dccb70b6f154529161344fd69e4e3d4.PNG)

thanks

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### Author: ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2018, 9:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-courier-fetch/125736/2 "2018-03-27T21:32:30Z")

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> 305 of 369 shards failed

Most often, this indicates a scaling problem: too few nodes available to read from too many/too large shards.

What does the cat/shards API return with your index pattern?

```auto
GET _cat/shards/<yourindexpatternprefix>-*?v

```

How many nodes are in this cluster? Are they pretty much the same in terms of their hardware and Elasticsearch configuration?

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### Author: ![Hanen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Hanen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hanen)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-courier-fetch/125736/3 "2018-03-28T12:59:58Z")

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Hello,

many thanks for your replay,

I have 7 nodes in this cluster, in fact I configured elasticsearch on 7 windows servers.(a node per region)

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### Author: ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-courier-fetch/125736/4 "2018-03-28T16:55:22Z")

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When you look at the `_cat/shards` API for this index pattern, are the shards pretty much evenly distributed across the 7 nodes? How large are the shards in GB on average?

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### 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: [March 28, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-courier-fetch/125736/5 "2018-03-28T17:07:53Z")

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How far apart are these regions you have deployed the cluster across?

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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: [April 25, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/warning-courier-fetch/125736/6 "2018-04-25T17:08:00Z")

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