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Troubleshooting background
To troubleshoot Elasticsearch log “Exception thrown by listener while notifying on all nodes acked” it’s important to know common problems related to Elasticsearch concepts: cluster, master. See below-detailed explanations complete with common problems, examples and useful tips.
Cluster in Elasticsearch
What is it
In Elasticsearch a cluster is a collection of one or more nodes (servers / VMs). A cluster can consist of an unlimited number of nodes. The cluster provides interface for indexing and storing data and search capability across all of the data which is stored in the data nodes
Each cluster has a single master node that is elected by the master eligible nodes. In cases where the master is not available the other connected master eligible nodes elect a new master. Clusters are identified by a unique name, which defaults to “Elasticsearch”.
Nodes in Elasticsearch
What it is
Simply explained a node is a single server that is part of a cluster. Each node is assigned with one or more roles, which describes the node responsibility and operations – Data nodes stores the data, and participates in the cluster’s indexing and search capabilities, while master nodes are responsible for managing the cluster activities and storing the cluster state, including the metadata.
While it’s possible to run several Node instances of Elasticsearch on the same hardware, it’s considered a best practice to limit a server to a single running instance of Elasticsearch.
Nodes connect to each other and form a cluster by using a discovery method.
Roles
Master node
Master nodes are in charge of cluster-wide settings and changes – deleting or creating indices and fields, adding or removing nodes and allocating shards to nodes. Each cluster has a single master node that is elected from the master eligible nodes using a distributed consensus algorithm and is reelected if the current master node fails.
Coordinator Node (aka client node)
Coordinator Node – is a node that does not hold any configured role. It doesn’t hold data, not part of the master eligible group nor execute ingest pipelines. Coordinator node serves incoming search requests and is acting as the query coordinator – running the query and fetch phases, sending requests to every node which holds a shard being queried. The client node also distributes bulk indexing operations and route queries to shards copies based on the nodes responsiveness.
Related issues to this log
To help troubleshoot related issues we have gathered selected Q&A from the community and issues from Github , please review the following for further information :
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stackoverflow.com/questions/20244696/could-not-resolve-placeholder-in-string-value
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stackoverflow.com/questions/4584904/what-causes-the-broken-pipe-error
Log Context
Log ”Exception thrown by listener while notifying on all nodes acked” classname is MasterService.java
We have extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code to get an in-depth context :
public void onAllNodesAcked(
Nullable Exception e) {
try (ThreadContext.StoredContext ignore = context.get()) {
listener.onAllNodesAcked(e);
} catch (Exception inner) {
inner.addSuppressed(e);
logger.error("exception thrown by listener while notifying on all nodes acked"; inner);
}
}
Override
public void onAckTimeout() {
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