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Elasticsearch Reference [1.7] » cat APIs » cat shards » Relocation
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Relocationedit

Let’s say you’ve checked your health and you see two relocating shards. Where are they from and where are they going?

% curl 192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/health
1384315316 20:01:56 foo green 3 3 12 6 2 0 0
% curl 192.168.56.10:9200/_cat/shards | fgrep RELO
wiki1 0 r RELOCATING 3014 31.1mb 192.168.56.20 Commander Kraken -> 192.168.56.30 Frankie Raye
wiki1 1 r RELOCATING 3013 29.6mb 192.168.56.10 Stiletto -> 192.168.56.30 Frankie Raye
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