Diagnosing and Repairing Shard Issues in Elasticsearch 7.13

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Diagnosing and Repairing Shard Issues in Elasticsearch 7.13

Yellow and especially red cluster states can certainly create a stressful situation. To help alleviate this stress, Elasticsearch has made it easy to diagnose your shard issues so you can get the cluster back to a green state quickly. In this hands-on lab, you will get to diagnose and repair shard issues in an Elasticsearch cluster.

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Lab Info

Level

Advanced

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

3h 0m

Challenge

Troubleshoot and Repair the accounts Indices

From the Kibana console on the es1 node, use the cluster allocation explain API to troubleshoot and then repair the accounts-1 and accounts-2 indices.
Challenge

Reconfigure the accounts Indices to Avoid Repeated Failure

From the Kibana console on the es1 node, configure the accounts-1 and accounts-2 indices in such a way as to maximize redundancy and reliability.

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