elasticsearch/docs/reference/troubleshooting/data/enable-index-allocation.asciidoc
Andrei Dan 08b323131f
Troubleshooting guides for disabled allocations (#86789)
This adds the troubleshooing guides when index and cluster allocations are
disabled.

Co-authored-by: Lee Hinman <dakrone@users.noreply.github.com>
2022-05-24 10:27:15 +01:00

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[[allow-all-index-allocation]]
== Allow Elasticsearch to allocate the index
The allocation of data can be controlled using the <<index-routing-allocation-enable-setting, enable
allocation configuration>>.
In certain circumstances users might want to temporarily disable or restrict the
allocation of data.
Forgetting to re-allow all data allocation can lead to unassigned shards.
In order to (re)allow all data to be allocated follow these steps:
include::{es-repo-dir}/tab-widgets/troubleshooting/data/enable-index-allocation-widget.asciidoc[]