Add common causes for unassigned shards

troubleshoot/elasticsearch/diagnose-unassigned-shards.md

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 If you’re using Elastic Cloud Hosted, then you can use AutoOps to monitor your cluster. AutoOps significantly simplifies cluster management with performance recommendations, resource utilization visibility, real-time issue detection and resolution paths. For more information, refer to [Monitor with AutoOps](/deploy-manage/monitor/autoops.md).
 
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+## Common issues
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+The following sections provide advice for resolving some of the common causes for unassigned shards.
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+### Conflicting settings
+
+A primary shard might be unassigned due to conflicting settings.
+View [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z3n2VgusLE) for a walkthrough of troubleshooting a node and index setting mismatch.
+
+### Maximum number of retries exceeded [maximum-retries-exceeded]
+
+When Elasticsearch is unable to allocate a shard, it will attempt to retry allocation up to the maximum number of retries allowed.
+After this, Elasticsearch will stop attempting to allocate the shard in order to prevent infinite retries which may impact cluster performance.
+You can use an API to [reroute the cluster](https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/v8/operation/operation-cluster-reroute), which will allocate the shard if the issue preventing allocation has been resolved.
+
+### No valid shard copy [no-shard-copy]
+
+If a shard is unassigned with an allocation status of `no_valid_shard_copy`, you should make sure that all nodes are in the cluster. If all the nodes containing in-sync copies of a shard are lost, then you can recover the data for the shard.
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+View [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OAg9IyXFO4) for a walkthrough of troubleshooting `no_valid_shard_copy`.