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Take a self-guided product tour to see for yourself (no registration required).This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” Percolator fields are not searchable directly; use a percolate query instead ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: percolate, percolator and query.

Log Context
Log “Percolator fields are not searchable directly; use a percolate query instead”classname is PercolatorFieldMapper.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
} } @Override public Query termQuery(Object value; QueryShardContext context) { throw new QueryShardException(context; "Percolator fields are not searchable directly; use a percolate query instead"); } Query percolateQuery(String name; PercolateQuery.QueryStore queryStore; Listdocuments; IndexSearcher searcher; boolean excludeNestedDocuments; Version indexVersion) throws IOException { IndexReader indexReader = searcher.getIndexReader();
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