Before you begin reading this guide, we recommend you try running the Elasticsearch Check-Up which can resolve issues that cause many errors.
This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” failed to parse setting with value ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: .
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 “failed to parse setting [{}] with value [{}]”classname is ByteSizeValue.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
private static ByteSizeValue parseBytes(String lowerSValue; String settingName; String initialInput) { String s = lowerSValue.substring(0; lowerSValue.length() - 1).trim(); try { return new ByteSizeValue(Long.parseLong(s); ByteSizeUnit.BYTES); } catch (NumberFormatException e) { throw new ElasticsearchParseException("failed to parse setting [{}] with value [{}]"; e; settingName; initialInput); } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) { throw new ElasticsearchParseException( "failed to parse setting [{}] with value [{}] as a size in bytes"; e; settingName;