# Elastic search data availability issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-data-availability-issue/163680>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 10, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-data-availability-issue/163680 "2019-01-10T09:05:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Irti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aeb1de/32.png) [@Irti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Irti)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 9:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-data-availability-issue/163680/1 "2019-01-10T09:05:22Z")

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Hello everyone, I developed service (based on our use case) on top of [elasticsearch node client](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js). For the testing of service, I wrote some functional tests, in those tests, I perform the following steps:

1. Create an index
2. Insert a document in the index
3. Pull the inserted document back from the index

These tests run in ubuntu docker container environment details are given below:

LSB Version: core-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:printing-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:security-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch  
Distributor ID: Ubuntu  
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS  
Release: 18.04  
Codename: bionic

Installed elasticsearch's inside the docker container:

"version" : {  
"number" : "6.5.4",  
"build\_flavor" : "default",  
"build\_type" : "deb",  
"build\_hash" : "d2ef93d",  
"build\_date" : "2018-12-17T21:17:40.758843Z",  
"build\_snapshot" : false,  
"lucene\_version" : "7.5.0",  
"minimum\_wire\_compatibility\_version" : "5.6.0",  
"minimum\_index\_compatibility\_version" : "5.0.0"  
},

**ISSUE**

I faced an issue in step 3 when I pull data from an index because elastic search takes almost 1 second time to make the data available.

While the same tests run on my local machine without any issue, my current system is version is:

| LSB Version: | core-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:printing-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch:security-9.20170808ubuntu1-noarch |
| --- | --- |
| Distributor ID: | Ubuntu |
| Description: | Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS |
| Release: | 18.04 |
| Codename: | bionic |

**Question**  
Is this issue caused by the docker container environment?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 10:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-data-availability-issue/163680/2 "2019-01-10T10:13:09Z")

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In a test context, you need to call the refresh API to make your documents visible for search.

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**Author:** ![Irti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aeb1de/32.png) [@Irti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Irti)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-data-availability-issue/163680/3 "2019-01-10T10:41:42Z")

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Thank you for quick response, I will try this approach.

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**Author:** ![Affan\_Syed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Affan\_Syed](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Affan_Syed)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 6:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-data-availability-issue/163680/4 "2019-01-11T06:20:22Z")

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@dadoonet that seems to be a test specific rationale, but why is this happening in the docker version and NOT the baremetal version?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-data-availability-issue/163680/5 "2019-01-11T07:10:05Z")

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It is happening the same way.  
I think you are just "unlucky" with the bare metal instance. 😉

A refresh is happening every second more or less.

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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 8, 2019, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-data-availability-issue/163680/6 "2019-02-08T07:10:09Z")

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