# Why am I getting warning about "Number of open shards exceeds cluster soft limit"?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-am-i-getting-warning-about-number-of-open-shards-exceeds-cluster-soft-limit/295356>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 25, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-am-i-getting-warning-about-number-of-open-shards-exceeds-cluster-soft-limit/295356 "2022-01-25T14:21:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![willdennis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/willdennis/32/100683_2.png) [@willdennis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/willdennis)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-am-i-getting-warning-about-number-of-open-shards-exceeds-cluster-soft-limit/295356/9 "2022-01-27T02:14:53Z")

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I hear you; I need to get what I have in order, and then I can work on data lifecycle matters, etc.

Also, I do want to upgrade to 7.x, but I have some index issues to resolve as well before I can do the upgrade... Like [this one](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-when-trying-to-reindex-old-indices-thru-kibana-7-0-upgrade-assistant/295362)...

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