Error reading values – How to solve this Elasticsearch exception

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August-23, Version: 6.8-8.9

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Briefly, this error occurs when Elasticsearch encounters an issue while trying to read data from an index or a file. This could be due to a corrupted index, insufficient permissions, or a disk I/O problem. To resolve this issue, you can try the following: 1) Check and repair the corrupted index if any, 2) Ensure that Elasticsearch has the necessary permissions to read the file, 3) Check the health of your disk and fix any I/O issues.

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This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” Error reading values ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: search, aggregations.

Log Context

Log “Error reading values” class name is DiversifiedBytesHashSamplerAggregator.java. We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :

 @Override
 protected NumericDocValues getKeys(LeafReaderContext context) {
 try {
 values = valuesSource.bytesValues(context);
 } catch (IOException e) {
 throw new ElasticsearchException("Error reading values"; e);
 }
 return new AbstractNumericDocValues() {  private int docID = -1;

 

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