# Could not index event to Elasticsearch action=update

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-action-update/164187>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-action-update/164187 "2019-01-14T18:51:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-action-update/164187/1 "2019-01-14T18:51:26Z")

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2019-01-14T12:42:10,098][WARN][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Could not index event to Elasticsearch. {:status=\>404, :action=\>["update", {:\_id=\>"417050708", :\_index=\>"houston\_jobs", :\_type=\>"doc", :routing=\>nil, :\_retry\_on\_conflict=\>1}, #LogStash::Event:0x1e89489b], :response=\>{"update"=\>{"\_index"=\>"houston\_jobs", "\_type"=\>"doc", "\_id"=\>"417050708", "status"=\>404, "error"=\>{"type"=\>"document\_missing\_exception", "reason"=\>"[doc][417050708]: document missing", "index\_uuid"=\>"JsdfNppxQVqs9Tb-mhv\_Uw", "shard"=\>"0", "index"=\>"houston\_jobs"}}}}

I have suddenly started getting this ? what is happening here.  
I don't have action=\>update in config file

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**Author:** ![elasticforme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f05b48/32.png) [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-action-update/164187/2 "2019-01-14T19:41:39Z")

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Fixed.

I had a one config file running every five min pulling data from database and inserting in to Elasticsearch  
I had a another config file which was running once a hour and pulling different data and updating same index that I had created before. with same document\_id. and both config was on same pipeline

I created two separate pipeline and error has gone away.

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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:** [February 11, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/could-not-index-event-to-elasticsearch-action-update/164187/3 "2019-02-11T19:41:41Z")

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