ElasticSearch: Unassigned Shards, how to fix?

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By default, Elasticsearch will re-assign shards to nodes dynamically. However, if you’ve disabled shard allocation (perhaps you did a rolling restart and forgot to re-enable it), you can re-enable shard allocation.

# v0.90.x and earlier
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_settings' -d '{
    "index.routing.allocation.disable_allocation": false
}'

# v1.0+
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/_cluster/settings' -d '{
    "transient" : {
        "cluster.routing.allocation.enable" : "all"
    }
}'

Elasticsearch will then reassign shards as normal. This can be slow, consider raising indices.recovery.max_bytes_per_sec and cluster.routing.allocation.node_concurrent_recoveries to speed it up.

If you’re still seeing issues, something else is probably wrong, so look in your Elasticsearch logs for errors. If you see EsRejectedExecutionException your thread pools may be too small.

Finally, you can explicitly reassign a shard to a node with the reroute API.

# Suppose shard 4 of index "my-index" is unassigned, so you want to
# assign it to node search03:
curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/_cluster/reroute' -d '{
    "commands": [{
        "allocate": {
            "index": "my-index",
            "shard": 4,
            "node": "search03",
            "allow_primary": 1
        }
    }]
}'

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