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 ” Unable to delete global metadata file ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: blobstore, delete, discovery-file, metadata and repositories.
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.
Overview
DELETE is an Elasticsearch API which removes a document from a specific index. This API requires an index name and _id document to delete the document.
Delete a document
DELETE /my_index/_doc/1
Notes
- A delete request throws 404 error code if the document does not already exist in the index.
- If you want to delete a set of documents that matches a query, you need to use delete by query API.
Log Context
Log “Unable to delete global metadata file [{}]” classname is BlobStoreRepository.java.
We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
} catch (IOException e) {
if (snapshotInfo != null) {
logger.warn(() -> new ParameterizedMessage("[{}] Unable to delete global metadata file [{}]";
snapshotInfo.snapshotId(); blobId); e);
} else {
logger.warn(() -> new ParameterizedMessage("Unable to delete global metadata file [{}]"; blobId); e);
}
}
}
private void deleteIndexMetaDataBlobIgnoringErrors(final SnapshotInfo snapshotInfo; final IndexId indexId) {
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