# Elasticsearch - retrying failed action with response code: 503
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-retrying-failed-action-with-response-code-503/149036
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 19, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-retrying-failed-action-with-response-code-503/149036 "2018-09-19T01:19:21Z")
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### Author:  [@Vivek\_Nigam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vivek_Nigam)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-retrying-failed-action-with-response-code-503/149036/1 "2018-09-19T01:19:21Z")
I m ingesting very small data in elasticserach getting following error:
elasticsearch - retrying failed action with response code: 503 ({"type"=\>"unavailable\_shards\_exception", "reason"=\>"[mastercount][0] primary shard is not active Timeout: [1m], request: [BulkShardRequest [[mastercount][0]] containing [index {[mastercount][doc][eZyo7WUBc\_5LZQ1F9NaP], source[
[INFO] 2018-09-18 22:40:57.523 [Ruby-0-Thread-9@[main]\>worker2: :1] elasticsearch - Retrying individual bulk actions that failed or were rejected by the previous bulk request. {:count=\>1}
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-retrying-failed-action-with-response-code-503/149036/2 "2018-10-17T01:19:25Z")
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