We have a fleet of approximately 200 nodes. We use ES 1.7.4 version. Watermark.low equals to 80% and high to 85%. Around 5-8% of the fleet has Disk Usage between 80% and 85% and 5% of nodes - around 20-30% of DU. When a node with ~79-83% Disk Usage goes down and then up, shards are not getting all…

Watermark and shard allocation

vb3 June 19, 2017, 7:52pm 2

@warkolm can you comment on this? Seems like a bug in 1.7.4

Thank you.

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