# Circuit\_breaking\_exception \[parent\] Data too large **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 26, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/circuit-breaking-exception-parent-data-too-large/268528 "2021-03-26T17:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jfs1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@jfs1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jfs1)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/circuit-breaking-exception-parent-data-too-large/268528/1 "2021-03-26T17:39:33Z")
Got this dreadful circuit\_breaking\_exception The cause is known : I accidentally started creating one index per event. Bad idea ! I stopped the offending logstash instance, so my cluster is not under load anymore. Unfortunately, it is in such a state that I can't even delete the badly created indices. How could I get back my elastic cluster in a working state ? Should I perform a full cluster restart ? I suspect that even doing so, elastic will try to process its queue and remain stuck. Any way to restart an elastic cluster without processing the pending operations ? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2021, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/circuit-breaking-exception-parent-data-too-large/268528/2 "2021-03-29T00:10:57Z")
What is the output from `_cat/health?v`? What is the output from the `_cluster/stats?pretty&human` API? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/circuit-breaking-exception-parent-data-too-large/268528/3 "2021-04-26T00:11:27Z")
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