Received a join request for an existing node – How to solve related issues

Opster Team

Feb-20, Version: 1.7-8.0

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This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” Received a join request for an existing node ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: discovery, join, node and request.

Log Context

Log “received a join request for an existing node [{}]” classname is ZenDiscovery.java.
We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :

             clusterService.submitStateUpdateTask("zen-disco-receive(join from node[" + node + "])"; Priority.IMMEDIATE; new ProcessedClusterStateUpdateTask() {
                
Override
                public ClusterState execute(ClusterState currentState) {
                    if (currentState.nodes().nodeExists(node.id())) {
                        // the node already exists in the cluster
                        logger.info("received a join request for an existing node [{}]"; node);
                        // still send a new cluster state; so it will be re published and possibly update the other node
                        return ClusterState.builder(currentState).build();
                    }
                    DiscoveryNodes.Builder builder = DiscoveryNodes.builder(currentState.nodes());
                    for (DiscoveryNode existingNode : currentState.nodes()) {



 

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