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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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Clock icon Sep 03, 2025

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  1. 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.

  2. 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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