# Elasticsearch hive query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-hive-query/92036>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** es-hadoop\
**Created:** [July 6, 2017, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-hive-query/92036 "2017-07-06T08:04:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Mayank\_Vijay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mayank\_Vijay](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mayank_Vijay)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-hive-query/92036/1 "2017-07-06T08:04:52Z")

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Hello,  
I just want to view data stored in elastic search in form of hive table. The hive query i run is:  
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE testHiveELKTable (account int, quantity int) STORED BY 'org.elasticsearch.hasoop.hive.EsStorageHandler' TBLPROPERTIES('es.resource' = 'index/type');

But i get,  
Failed:Execution Error, return code 1 fromorg.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. org.elasticsearch.hadoop.EsHadoopIllegalArgumentException: Cannot detect ES version- this typically happens if network/elasticsearch cluster is not accessible or when targetting a WAN/Cloud instance without proper setting in 'es.nodes.wan.only'

I even tried setting es.nodes.wan.only = true but still error shows.

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**Author:** ![james.baiera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/james.baiera/32/10209_2.png) [@james.baiera](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/james.baiera)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-hive-query/92036/2 "2017-07-17T02:11:13Z")

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This error often means that Hive or its workers cannot establish a connection with Elasticsearch. Make sure that you are able to reach the Elasticsearch service from all machines running Hive and its workers.

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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:** [August 14, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-hive-query/92036/3 "2017-08-14T02:11:15Z")

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