# All Elasticsearch requests timing out

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-elasticsearch-requests-timing-out/365488>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Created:** [August 24, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-elasticsearch-requests-timing-out/365488 "2024-08-24T02:15:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrisspen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@chrisspen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chrisspen)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 2:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-elasticsearch-requests-timing-out/365488/1 "2024-08-24T02:15:11Z")

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I'm trying to use the Python API to add documents to my local Elasticsearch node. However, every call to `es.index(...)` is throwing a elastic\_transport.ConnectionTimeout error even though I have timeout=60s.

My logs have a lot of entries like:

```
[2024-08-23T22:01:29,140][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService] [localhost] current.health="RED" message="Cluster health status changed from [YELLOW] to [RED] (reason: [reconcile-desired-balance])." previous.health="YELLOW" reason="reconcile-desired-balance"
[2024-08-23T22:01:46,081][WARN][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [localhost] high disk watermark [90%] exceeded on [mkJSQDetRpWzRxhIyZHrGA][localhost][/var/lib/elasticsearch] free: 58.3gb[6.5%], shards will be relocated away from this node; currently relocating away shards totalling [0] bytes; the node is expected to continue to exceed the high disk watermark when these relocations are complete
[2024-08-23T22:02:46,085][WARN][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [localhost] high disk watermark [90%] exceeded on [mkJSQDetRpWzRxhIyZHrGA][localhost][/var/lib/elasticsearch] free: 58.3gb[6.5%], shards will be relocated away from this node; currently relocating away shards totalling [0] bytes; the node is expected to continue to exceed the high disk watermark when these relocations are complete
[2024-08-23T22:03:46,088][WARN][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [localhost] high disk watermark [90%] exceeded on [mkJSQDetRpWzRxhIyZHrGA][localhost][/var/lib/elasticsearch] free: 58.3gb[6.5%

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Would this be the cause? And if so, how would I fix this?

I'm assuming this is related to my disk being quite full, at around 94% usage. But I still have 63G full, which should be more than enough to play around with a toy install of Elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![Tortoise](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tortoise/32/147587_2.png) [@Tortoise](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tortoise)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-elasticsearch-requests-timing-out/365488/2 "2024-08-24T03:36:06Z")

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Hello,

Correct , you need to review the FileSystem.

> **[Fix watermark errors | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.15\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/fix-watermark-errors.html)**

Thanks!!

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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 21, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/all-elasticsearch-requests-timing-out/365488/3 "2024-09-21T03:36:36Z")

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