Before you begin reading this guide, we recommend you run Elasticsearch Error Check-Up which can resolve issues that cause many errors.
This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” Master should not receive new cluster state from ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: cluster and master.
Advanced users might want to skip right to the common problems section in each concept or try running the Check-Up to analyze Elasticsearch configuration and help resolve this error.
Log Context
Log “master should not receive new cluster state from [{}]” classname is RiverClusterService.java.
We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
private class UpdateClusterStateListener implements PublishRiverClusterStateAction.NewClusterStateListener { Override public void onNewClusterState(final RiverClusterState clusterState) { ClusterState state = clusterService.state(); if (state.nodes().localNodeMaster()) { logger.warn("master should not receive new cluster state from [{}]"; state.nodes().masterNode()); return; } submitStateUpdateTask("received_state"; new RiverClusterStateUpdateTask() { Override