ElasticSearch: Unassigned Shards, how to fix?

Question

I have an ES cluster with 4 nodes:

number_of_replicas: 1
search01 - master: false, data: false
search02 - master: true, data: true
search03 - master: false,          


        

Answer 1

Elasticsearch automatically allocates shards if the below config is set to all. This config can be set using a rest api as well cluster.routing.allocation.enable: all

If even after application of the below config, es fails to assign the shards automatically, then you have to force assign the shards yourself. ES official link for this

I have written a script to force assign all unassigned shards across cluster.

below array contains list of nodes among which you want to balance the unassigned shards

#!/bin/bash
array=( node1 node2 node3 )
node_counter=0
length=${#array[@]}
IFS=$'\n'
for line in $(curl -s 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/_cat/shards'|  fgrep UNASSIGNED); do
    INDEX=$(echo $line | (awk '{print $1}'))
    SHARD=$(echo $line | (awk '{print $2}'))
    NODE=${array[$node_counter]}
    echo $NODE
    curl -XPOST 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/_cluster/reroute' -d '{
        "commands": [
        {
            "allocate": {
                "index": "'$INDEX'",
                "shard": '$SHARD',
                "node": "'$NODE'",
                "allow_primary": true
            }
        }
        ]
    }'
    node_counter=$(((node_counter)%length +1))
done