# Bulk indexing failure scenarios

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-indexing-failure-scenarios/45349>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 24, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-indexing-failure-scenarios/45349 "2016-03-24T13:23:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![stpruitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@stpruitt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stpruitt)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-indexing-failure-scenarios/45349/1 "2016-03-24T13:23:37Z")

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In order to test my code for handling failed index requests, as returned in a BulkResponse, I need some typical ways a failure can occur after the bulk request executes.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/bulk-indexing-failure-scenarios/45349/2 "2017-07-05T23:05:29Z")

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