Elasticsearch "Yellow" cluster status explained | Chris Simpson - Software DeveloperIn my last article, I wrote about how to get started running Elasticsearch on EC2. I breifly mentioned the cluster state switching from yellow to green and recieved a comment asking exactly what this meant. I’ve prepared this short post discussing the yellow status, and the Elasticsearch Cluster Health API. Before I start, let’s recap on some Elasticsearch terminology: an Elasticsearch cluster is
