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Fix data nodes out of disk

Stack

The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats.

Availability

  • Generally available

    This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage.

Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments.

This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.

Elasticsearch is using data nodes to distribute your data inside the cluster. If one or more of these nodes are running out of space, Elasticsearch takes action to redistribute your data within the nodes so all nodes have enough available disk space. This is known as hitting disk watermarks and you can refer to troubleshooting watermark errors for additional information.

If Elasticsearch cannot facilitate enough available space in a node, then you can intervene in one of two ways:

  1. Increase the disk capacity of your cluster
  2. Reduce the disk usage by decreasing your data volume
Detect and resolve issues with AutoOps

AutoOps is a monitoring tool that detects issues in your Elasticsearch cluster in real time and recommends how to resolve them and improve performance. Learn more about AutoOps.