# Elasticsearch output indefinite retry on failure

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-output-indefinite-retry-on-failure/219882>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-output-indefinite-retry-on-failure/219882 "2020-02-19T02:41:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![edster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@edster](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/edster)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-output-indefinite-retry-on-failure/219882/1 "2020-02-19T02:41:22Z")

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Is there anyway to stop multiple retries for an Elasticsearch output? Essentially if it has to retry more than 3 or 5 times then it should give the stack trace or error logs and then just terminate as is. Essentially just looking to have it stop giving the infinite retries on fails.

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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:** [March 18, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-output-indefinite-retry-on-failure/219882/2 "2020-03-18T02:44:59Z")

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