# Why Cluster Status is Red, please help

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-cluster-status-is-red-please-help/39659>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 20, 2016, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-cluster-status-is-red-please-help/39659 "2016-01-20T13:36:47Z")\
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**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 20, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-cluster-status-is-red-please-help/39659/2 "2016-01-20T21:17:34Z")

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Basically it's red cause you have unassigned primaries.

It looks like you are using NFS and it's timing out.

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