Cluster Health Status Yellow - Too many unassigned shards

[teirekos]

Hello,

My cluster status is Yellow and I have from a total of 1062 shards, 531 unassigned. And the number of unassigned is increasing.

Any hints please!

[tmcdonald]

This usually means you only have one Logserver instance in your cluster. There are primary and replica shards, by default one of each - this allows for failover in case one server goes down. In this case since you only have one server in the cluster, there is not a backup server to carry the shards so the status is Yellow.

You will need to add another instance to the cluster to make that a Green status.

[teirekos]

So the Yellow Status means that this instance is not having any problem and operates smoothly.
But in case I want redundancy I need to allocate a new instance in another machine! ?

[tmcdonald]

That is correct. However keep in mind that the status shown is for the overall cluster, not the individual instances in them.

[teirekos]

Thanx a lot.
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