Elasticsearch Shard Initializing Progress. I plan to migrate the data in a cluster with three nodes to anot

I plan to migrate the data in a cluster with three nodes to another cluster. A detailed guide on how to resolve errors related to "Failing shard with unassigned info" - common causes and fixes Hello. routing. It seem to take for ever to initialize a shard. This would mean that the shard was actually stuck Small ES cluster stuck on initializing_shards Asked 8 years, 8 months ago Modified 8 years, 8 months ago Viewed 4k times So _cat/shards tells you the status, but not how long it needs. Data nodes specs : 16 CPU - 7GB RAM - 500GB SSD The data is inserted on the non-data node and split This means that ES is not sure which copy of the shard has the most recent data and it will not assign one as primary because if another shard with newer data connects to the cluster later In this article, we will explore the cat shards API, its usage, and how to interpret the output to effectively manage your Elasticsearch shards. 0 in our production cluster. During initialization, Elasticsearch is allocating I started a new elasticsearch cluster and added a new index, then I shut it down. But even after 15 hours it is still stuck in I have a fairly large index (~3. Possible causes Elasticsearch allocation API, cluster will attempt to allocate a shard a maximum of index.