# Elasticsearch cluster problems

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-problems/236611>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 11, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-problems/236611 "2020-06-11T03:58:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kase)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-problems/236611/1 "2020-06-11T03:58:43Z")

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Hi there,  
I want to create elasticsearch cluster, but encountered some problems...

my os version: ubuntu 18.04  
my elasticsearch version: 7.7  
my java version:  
openjdk version "11.0.7" 2020-04-14  
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-2ubuntu218.04)  
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.7+10-post-Ubuntu-2ubuntu218.04, mixed mode, sharing)

I have three VM, below are three elasticsearch.yml configuration

master ES:

```
cluster.name: elastiflow-cluster
node.name: cluster-1
node.master: true
node.data: false
node.ingest: false
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch
network.host: 10.250.31.43
http.port: 9200
discovery.seed_hosts:
- 10.250.31.43:9200
- 10.250.31.44:9401
- 10.250.31.45:9301
cluster.initial_master_nodes:
- cluster-1

```

data ES:

```
cluster.name: elastiflow-cluster
node.name: data-1
node.master: false
node.data: true
node.ingest: false
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch
network.host: 10.250.31.44
http.port: 9401
discovery.seed_hosts:
- 10.250.31.43:9200
- 10.250.31.44:9401
- 10.250.31.45:9301
cluster.initial_master_nodes:
- cluster-1

```

ingest ES:

```
cluster.name: elastiflow-cluster
node.name: ingest-1
node.master: false
node.data: false
node.ingest: true
path.data: /var/lib/elasticsearch
path.logs: /var/log/elasticsearch
network.host: 10.250.31.45
http.port: 9301
discovery.seed_hosts:
- 10.250.31.43:9200
- 10.250.31.44:9401
- 10.250.31.45:9301
cluster.initial_master_nodes:
- cluster-1

```

All these three VM can start elasticsearch service successfully, but they didn't combine each other, also, in data ES log and ingest ES log I saw some console

data ES log:  
`[2020-06-11T03:20:35,560][WARN][o.e.c.c.ClusterFormationFailureHelper] [data-1] master not discovered yet: have discovered [{data-1}{XnHMvhVqSliWgW1kA17j6A}{U1Bha4kATvuFppFPlIasJQ}{10.250.31.44}{10.250.31.44:9300}{dlrt}{ml.machine_memory=16773595136, xpack.installed=true, transform.node=true, ml.max_open_jobs=20}]; discovery will continue using [10.250.31.43:9200, 10.250.31.44:9401, 10.250.31.45:9301] from hosts providers and [] from last-known cluster state; node term 0, last-accepted version 0 in term 0`

ingest ES log:

```
[2020-06-11T03:30:56,462][WARN][o.e.t.TcpTransport] [ingest-1] exception caught on transport layer [Netty4TcpChannel{localAddress=/10.250.31.45:59782, remoteAddress=/10.250.31.44:9401}], closing connection
io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: java.io.StreamCorruptedException: received HTTP response on transport port, ensure that transport port (not HTTP port) of a remote node is specified in the configuration
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:468) ~[netty-codec-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelInputClosed(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:401) ~[netty-codec-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelInputClosed(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:368) ~[netty-codec-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelInactive(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:351) ~[netty-codec-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:260) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:246) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:239) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.logging.LoggingHandler.channelInactive(LoggingHandler.java:153) [netty-handler-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:260) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:246) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:239) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelInactive(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1405) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:260) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelInactive(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:246) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelInactive(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:901) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannel$AbstractUnsafe$8.run(AbstractChannel.java:818) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.util.concurrent.AbstractEventExecutor.safeExecute(AbstractEventExecutor.java:164) [netty-common-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor.runAllTasks(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:472) [netty-common-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:497) [netty-transport-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$4.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:989) [netty-common-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.util.internal.ThreadExecutorMap$2.run(ThreadExecutorMap.java:74) [netty-common-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:832) [?:?]
Caused by: java.io.StreamCorruptedException: received HTTP response on transport port, ensure that transport port (not HTTP port) of a remote node is specified in the configuration
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.readHeaderBuffer(TcpTransport.java:758) ~[elasticsearch-7.7.1.jar:7.7.1]
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.TcpTransport.readMessageLength(TcpTransport.java:747) ~[elasticsearch-7.7.1.jar:7.7.1]
	at org.elasticsearch.transport.netty4.Netty4SizeHeaderFrameDecoder.decode(Netty4SizeHeaderFrameDecoder.java:43) ~[transport-netty4-client-7.7.1.jar:7.7.1]
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.decodeRemovalReentryProtection(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:498) ~[netty-codec-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:437) ~[netty-codec-4.1.45.Final.jar:4.1.45.Final]
	... 21 more

```

Would you please help me to solve these problems?  
Thanks  
Kase

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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:** [June 11, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-problems/236611/2 "2020-06-11T04:19:00Z")

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Some comments:

- on a 3 node clusters, make all nodes master eligible. Remove: `node.master: false`.
- avoid using 93xx as the rest port. It's normally used by the transport layer. If you do so, you also need to change `transport.port` to make sure it does not conflict.
- try as much as possible to use the default settings. Why changing the ports as you are running on different machines?
- the `discovery.seed_hosts` must use the transport port (default 9300) not the rest port

HTH

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**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kase)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-problems/236611/3 "2020-06-11T04:56:07Z")

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Hi @dadoonet ,  
thanks to your advices, I changed all port to 9200, and remove `node.master: false`.  
but problem still not solve, console is same..  
I want to ask why I have to do first thing?  
I use `node.master: false` because I want to test different node type.

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**Author:** ![Hubert\_Pham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hubert_pham/32/50565_2.png) [@Hubert\_Pham](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hubert_Pham)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 5:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-problems/236611/4 "2020-06-11T05:34:30Z")

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Separate point - initial\_master\_nodes should not be set on master-ineligible nodes

Source: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-discovery-bootstrap-cluster.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-discovery-bootstrap-cluster.html)

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**Author:** ![kase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@kase](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kase)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-problems/236611/5 "2020-06-11T08:04:34Z")

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Thanks @dadoonet, and @Hubert_Pham

I have solved these problems, I check all ES found that only master node has uuid, others uuid is `_na_`  
so I go to /var/lib/elasticsearch , remove all files, and fix all `elasticsearch.yml`,  
discovery.seed\_hosts:  
- 10.250.31.43:9200  
- 10.250.31.44:9200  
- 10.250.31.45:9200

to

```
discovery.seed_hosts:
- 10.250.31.43
- 10.250.31.44
- 10.250.31.45

```

and restart data node and ingest node, finally works!!  
thanks for yours helping!

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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 9, 2020, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-cluster-problems/236611/6 "2020-07-09T08:04:36Z")

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