# What happens if in between the Play the node goes down

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-happens-if-in-between-the-play-the-node-goes-down/31534>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 24, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-happens-if-in-between-the-play-the-node-goes-down/31534 "2019-10-24T08:06:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sumanyu\_Nandwani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Sumanyu\_Nandwani](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sumanyu_Nandwani)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2019, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-happens-if-in-between-the-play-the-node-goes-down/31534/1 "2019-10-24T08:06:31Z")

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I am facing an issue in which I run a playbook on ~30 nodes and if in between of a play one of the nodes goes down, the whole play gets stuck ( I think Ansible gets stuck ) and the other nodes are also getting stuck due to one node. Is there a way in which I can just skip the play for that node? Some heartbeat kind of thing for the node? That would really be helpful.