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Troubleshooting background
To troubleshoot Elasticsearch log “Actual Exception” it’s important to know common problems related to Elasticsearch concepts: replication. See below-detailed explanations complete with common problems, examples and useful tips.
Replication in Elasticsearch
What it is
Replication refers to storing the redundant copy of the data. Starting from version 7.x, Elasticsearch creates one primary shard with a replication factor set to 1. Replicas never get assigned on the same node on which primary shards are assigned, which means you should have at least two nodes in the cluster to assign the replicas. If a primary shard goes down, the replica automatically acts as a primary shard.
What it is used for
Replicas are used to provide high availability and failover. A higher number of replicas is also helpful for faster searches.
Examples
Update replication count
PUT /api-logs/_settings?pretty
{
"index" : {
"number_of_replicas" : 2
}
}
Common problems
- By default, If free disk space usage reaches 85%, the replicas of newly created indices are not assigned on that node and Elasticsearch throws a warning.
- Creating too many replicas may cause a problem if there are not enough resources available in the cluster.
Log Context
Log ”Actual Exception” classname is TransportReplicationAction.java
To help get the right context about this log, we have extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code
Releasables.close(indexShardReference);
try {
channel.sendResponse(t);
} catch (IOException responseException) {
logger.warn("failed to send error message back to client for action [{}]"; responseException; transportReplicaAction);
logger.warn("actual Exception"; t);
}
}
}
private void doFinish() {
Related issues to this log
To help troubleshoot related issues we have gathered selected answers from STOF & Discuss and issues from Github, please review the following for further information :
Elasticsearch Net 7 1 0 Issue
discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-net-7-1-0-issue/193674
Querying Elasticsearch With Nest Er
discuss.elastic.co/t/querying-elasticsearch-with-nest-error-input-string-was-not-in-a-correct-format/180353
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