# Backing off for 0 seconds

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-off-for-0-seconds/161412>\
**Category:** APM\
**Created:** [December 18, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-off-for-0-seconds/161412 "2018-12-18T20:59:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ram\_Ibaset](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ram_ibaset/32/27747_2.png) [@Ram\_Ibaset](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ram_Ibaset)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-off-for-0-seconds/161412/1 "2018-12-18T20:59:47Z")

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I am getting the following error - My configuration is as follows:

Spring Java based Application running on Tomcat Server 9.  
ELK stack 6.5.3 (running dockerized)  
Running the application from eclipse with the following launch configuration

```
-Delastic.apm.service_name="solumina" -Delastic.apm.application_packages="com.ibaset" -Delastic.apm.server_urls="http://localhost:8200" -javaagent:"/Users/host/dev/exec-scripts/elastic-apm-agent-1.1.0.jar"

```

Getting the following warnings and no logs in kibana

```
2018-12-18 11:14:37.013 [apm-reporter] INFO co.elastic.apm.report.IntakeV2ReportingEventHandler - Backing off for 0 seconds (±10%)
2018-12-18 11:14:37.013 [apm-reporter] WARN co.elastic.apm.report.IntakeV2ReportingEventHandler - Unexpected end of file from server
2018-12-18 11:14:37.013 [apm-reporter] WARN co.elastic.apm.report.IntakeV2ReportingEventHandler - null

```

Has anyone run into this?

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**Author:** ![felixbarny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/felixbarny/32/27341_2.png) [@felixbarny](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/felixbarny)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-off-for-0-seconds/161412/2 "2018-12-19T07:13:13Z")

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Hi and thanks for evaluating Elastic APM!

A few questions:

Do you see this error repeatedly (backoff increases 0s, 1s, 4s, 9s, ...) or only once in a while?

Could you have a look in the APM Server logs to see what is going on at that time?

Cheers,  
Felix

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**Author:** ![Ram\_Ibaset](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ram_ibaset/32/27747_2.png) [@Ram\_Ibaset](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ram_Ibaset)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-off-for-0-seconds/161412/3 "2018-12-19T22:51:41Z")

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Repeatedly as you mentioned. I think its something with eclipse. I ran it on a standalone tomcat and it works. So I am going to close it for now.

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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:** [January 9, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/backing-off-for-0-seconds/161412/4 "2019-01-09T18:51:45Z")

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