# 8.0 Upgrade Assistant cannot reindex

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/8-0-upgrade-assistant-cannot-reindex/193947>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 6, 2019, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/8-0-upgrade-assistant-cannot-reindex/193947 "2019-08-06T07:22:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sommerdal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Sommerdal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sommerdal)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/8-0-upgrade-assistant-cannot-reindex/193947/1 "2019-08-06T07:22:19Z")

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After updating ES and Kibana to 7.3.0 I have been trying to reindex old indices (v6..3.0) to new format using the Upgrade Assistant.

I succeded with a few and the I started at whole bunch (20) reindex processes.  
Unfortunately I had to recycle ES which put the jobs in a Cancelled state.

But restarting the jobs does absolutely nothing.  
It just reports "Reindexing" - but I can see that nothing changes when looking at the details.  
My indices are rather small (\< 200mb) so reindexing shoul be rather quick.

Starting reindexing processing on untouched indices doesnt work either (no progress).

I cannot identify any jobs/tasks using GET \_tasks.

Can I in any way reset/cncel these jobs - or find the roort cause for this strange bhaviour?

Thanks,  
Sommerdal

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**Author:** ![christophilus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christophilus/32/42991_2.png) [@christophilus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/christophilus)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/8-0-upgrade-assistant-cannot-reindex/193947/2 "2019-08-06T16:43:32Z")

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Hm. That sounds like it's possibly a legitimate issue worth [opening in GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues).

I'm not super familiar with this part of Kibana (but I've contacted someone who is, so they may chime in). I think that it is just a thin wrapper on top of Elasticsearch's [reindex API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-reindex.html). If so, you should be able to work around this by going directly to Elasticsearch and cancelling the reindex operations.

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/8-0-upgrade-assistant-cannot-reindex/193947/3 "2019-08-06T16:49:58Z")

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Can I get the response for the reindex status of one of the indices in question?

[GET /api/upgrade\_assistant/reindex/myIndex](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.7/upgrade-assistant-api-reindexing.html#_check_the_status_of_a_reindex)

You should be able to re-try the failed re-index in the UI. Are you able to do that? Do you get an error? Are there any errors in the Kibana server logs?

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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/8-0-upgrade-assistant-cannot-reindex/193947/4 "2019-08-06T17:33:07Z")

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I did that reindexing to three indice one by one when I moved to 7.x  
one is still working, two got so messed up. I had to retrieve data and recreate new index.

basically I read what ever field what needed from reindex put it on test machine.  
delete reindex and read from test machine back to production and recreated.

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**Author:** ![Sommerdal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Sommerdal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sommerdal)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/8-0-upgrade-assistant-cannot-reindex/193947/5 "2019-08-07T07:13:12Z")

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No matter if I write myIndex or an indename, I get the same response:

{  
"error": "no handler found for uri [/api/upgrade\_assistant/reindex/MyIndex?pretty] and method [GET]"  
}

{  
"error": "no handler found for uri [/api/upgrade\_assistant/reindex/logstash-2018.06.25?pretty] and method [GET]"  
}

I can retry the failed index using the UI - but it seems that it doesn't do anything. It just claims that it is reindexing but doesn't show any progress.

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**Author:** ![Sommerdal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@Sommerdal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sommerdal)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/8-0-upgrade-assistant-cannot-reindex/193947/6 "2019-08-09T11:57:39Z")

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I managed to solve the problems.  
I downloaded Curator 5..7.6 and used that to reindex every day in each month to a monthly index.  
Then I deleted all the original indicies and made a new Index Pattern in Kibana.  
Now all my indecies at v7 - and furthermore i managed to reduce number of shrads from more than 4.000 to 76 (way under the new limit of 1.000).  
Now I'm only missing upgrading logstash, which teased me a bit as I didn't recieve any new log-entries.

But that is a separate store, which I'll return to, if I need further assistance.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2019, 11:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/8-0-upgrade-assistant-cannot-reindex/193947/7 "2019-09-06T11:57:39Z")

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