Need to manually rebalance or reallocate primary shards on Elasticsearch nodes

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • We hit the low-disk watermark on an ES pod, or storage is getting full
  • Getting "replicas will not be assigned to this node" log
[2019-03-13 21:54:41,351][INFO ][cluster.routing.allocation.decider] [logging-es-24mgtsne] low disk watermark [85%] exceeded on [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx][logging-es-xxxxxxxx][/elasticsearch/persistent/logging-es/data/logging-es/nodes/0] free: 193.2gb[14.7%], replicas will not be assigned to this node
  • How to reroute shards in CLUSTER_RECOVERED state

Environment

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
    • 3.9

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