# Blocked by: \[TOO\_MANY\_REQUESTS/12/disk usage exceeded flood-stage watermark, index has read-only-allow-delete block\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/blocked-by-too-many-requests-12-disk-usage-exceeded-flood-stage-watermark-index-has-read-only-allow-delete-block/324725>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 5, 2023, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/blocked-by-too-many-requests-12-disk-usage-exceeded-flood-stage-watermark-index-has-read-only-allow-delete-block/324725 "2023-02-05T05:01:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2023, 5:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/blocked-by-too-many-requests-12-disk-usage-exceeded-flood-stage-watermark-index-has-read-only-allow-delete-block/324725/2 "2023-02-05T05:20:03Z")

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Perhaps take a look at this [post](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-is-down-indexing-is-not-supported-on-a-read-only-engine/206229/5)

Although I thought in 7.17 it automatically reset those settings..

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