{
  "error" : {
    "root_cause" : [
      {
        "type" : "illegal_argument_exception",
        "reason" : "No shard was specified in the request which means the response should explain a randomly-chosen unassigned shard, but there are no unassigned shards in this cluster. To explain the allocation of an assigned shard you must specify the target shard in the request. See 

 for more information."
      }
    ],
    "type" : "illegal_argument_exception",
    "reason" : "No shard was specified in the request which means the response should explain a randomly-chosen unassigned shard, but there are no unassigned shards in this cluster. To explain the allocation of an assigned shard you must specify the target shard in the request. See 

 for more information."
  },
  "status" : 400
}

this means that elasticsearch server hasn't started, right?