# Cannot Save Data Frame to Elasticsearch during spark streaming

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-save-data-frame-to-elasticsearch-during-spark-streaming/103377>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 10, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-save-data-frame-to-elasticsearch-during-spark-streaming/103377 "2017-10-10T13:30:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![srinathji](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/srinathji/32/22961_2.png) [@srinathji](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srinathji)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-save-data-frame-to-elasticsearch-during-spark-streaming/103377/1 "2017-10-10T13:30:52Z")

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Hi All,  
please help me , i am getting below error while saving dataframe to Elastic search while spark streaming:

org.elasticsearch.hadoop.EsHadoopIllegalArgumentException: Cannot determine write shards for [custAct\_index/custAct\_index\_type];  
likely its format is incorrect (maybe it contains illegal characters?)

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**Author:** ![srinathji](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/srinathji/32/22961_2.png) [@srinathji](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srinathji)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 2:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-save-data-frame-to-elasticsearch-during-spark-streaming/103377/2 "2017-10-10T14:26:52Z")

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Below is the Gist for the Error I am facing:

> <https://gist.github.com/srinathji/8de38b051ecaf0306246fbd40ae39331>
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> There are more than three files. show original

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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:** [November 7, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cannot-save-data-frame-to-elasticsearch-during-spark-streaming/103377/3 "2017-11-07T14:27:36Z")

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