[[diagnose-unassigned-shards]]
== Diagnose unassigned shards

There are multiple reasons why shards might get unassigned, ranging from misconfigured
allocation settings to lack of disk space.

In order to diagnose the unassigned shards in your deployment use the following steps:

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