The strange case of Elasticsearch allocation failure

post, Mar 29, 2020 on Mitja Felicijan's blog

I've been using Elasticsearch in production for 5 years now and never had a @@ -55,21 +55,18 @@ dropped the original one with the following command.

On the surface it looks like all is working but I have a long road in front of me to get all the things working again. Cluster now shows that it is in Green mode but I am also getting a notification that the cluster has processing status -which could mean million of things.

Godspeed!