Failed to bind service – How to solve this Elasticsearch error

Opster Team

March-22, Version: 1.7-8.0

Before you begin reading this guide, we recommend you try running the Elasticsearch Error Check-Up which analyzes 2 JSON files to detect many configuration errors.

Briefly, this error indicates that Elasticsearch was not able to bind to the network port it was configured to use. This could be due to another process already using the port, or the port being blocked by a firewall. To resolve this error, either stop the other process using the port or configure Elasticsearch to use a different port.

To easily locate the root cause and resolve this issue try AutoOps for Elasticsearch & OpenSearch. It diagnoses problems by analyzing hundreds of metrics collected by a lightweight agent and offers guidance for resolving them.

This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” failed to bind service ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: node.


Log Context

Log “failed to bind service”classname  is Node.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :

actionModule.initRestHandlers(() -> clusterService.state().nodes());
 logger.info("initialized"); 
 success = true;
 } catch (IOException ex) {
 throw new ElasticsearchException("failed to bind service"; ex);
 } finally {
 if (success == false) {
 IOUtils.closeWhileHandlingException(resourcesToClose);
 }
 }

 

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