# Attempted to resurrect connection to dead ES instance

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attempted-to-resurrect-connection-to-dead-es-instance/84983>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [May 8, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attempted-to-resurrect-connection-to-dead-es-instance/84983 "2017-05-08T21:27:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexus/32/12696_2.png) [@alexus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/alexus)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attempted-to-resurrect-connection-to-dead-es-instance/84983/1 "2017-05-08T21:27:00Z")

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I keep getting flooded with following messages inside of my _/var/log/logstash/logstash-plain.log_:

> [2017-05-08T21:24:21,589][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Running health check to see if an Elasticsearch connection is working {:healthcheck\_url=\>[http://0:9200/](http://0:9200/), :path=\>"/"}  
> [2017-05-08T21:24:21,594][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Attempted to resurrect connection to dead ES instance, but got an error. {:url=\>#\<URI::HTTP:0xa7bcc0a URL:[http://0:9200/](http://0:9200/)\>, :error\_type=\>LogStash::Outputs::Elasticsearch::HttpClient::Pool::HostUnreachableError, :error=\>"Elasticsearch Unreachable: [[http://0:9200/](http://0:9200/)][Manticore::SocketException] Connection refused (Connection refused)"}

yet

```
root@linode1:/# curl 0:9200
{
  "name" : "linode1",
  "cluster_name" : "digaweb",
  "cluster_uuid" : "ag15KcHMRPG9ANWmleitfQ",
  "version" : {
    "number" : "5.4.0",
    "build_hash" : "780f8c4",
    "build_date" : "2017-04-28T17:43:27.229Z",
    "build_snapshot" : false,
    "lucene_version" : "6.5.0"
  },
  "tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
root@linode1:/# 

```

Please advise.

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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:** [June 5, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/attempted-to-resurrect-connection-to-dead-es-instance/84983/2 "2017-06-05T21:35:18Z")

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