# ES 1.1.1 - Plugins \_site not found **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 31, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-1-1-plugins--site-not-found/17843 "2014-05-31T14:23:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dan\_Spinner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dan_spinner/32/1528_2.png) [@Dan\_Spinner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan_Spinner)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-1-1-plugins--site-not-found/17843/1 "2014-05-31T14:23:34Z")
Has anyone else ran into this? We didn't have this behavior on 90.5. While testing out 1.1.1 it seems to happen every minute in the logs for both of the plugins we use which are siteless. If i create an empty \_site directory for the plugins then the log entries immediately stop. I've also confirmed that elasticsearch does start up properly with the empty \_site directory. I couldn't find anything in the documentation about changes to plugins and the \_site directory. Curious if anyone else has experienced this, and what they did. /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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:** [May 31, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-1-1-plugins--site-not-found/17843/2 "2014-05-31T15:22:05Z")
Are you using Marvel or any other monitoring tool? Something which call nodes info API for example??? -- David 😉 Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > Le 31 mai 2014 à 16:23, Dan Spinner [dan.spinner@sonian.net](mailto:dan.spinner@sonian.net) a écrit : > > Has anyone else ran into this? > > We didn't have this behavior on 90.5. While testing out 1.1.1 it seems to happen every minute in the logs for both of the plugins we use which are siteless. If i create an empty \_site directory for the plugins then the log entries immediately stop. I've also confirmed that elasticsearch does start up properly with the empty \_site directory. I couldn't find anything in the documentation about changes to plugins and the \_site directory. Curious if anyone else has experienced this, and what they did. > > ## /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8967B355-F781-455D-AC72-B7CA408A30B5%40pilato.fr](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8967B355-F781-455D-AC72-B7CA408A30B5%40pilato.fr). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![jprante](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jprante/32/44941_2.png) [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-1-1-plugins--site-not-found/17843/3 "2014-05-31T16:22:37Z")
Each time you start a node, may it be a (transport) client node or a server node, all plugins are checked/loaded at initialization. Each plugin, also jvm plugins on the classpath, is by default examined if a directory named "\_site" can be accessed. The purpose is to classify a plugin as site plugin. A method in FIleSystemUtils logs if the directory has problems. So the log message is completely harmless, especially for jvm plugins without a \_site. Note, if you see this every minute, you should research if there is something running in your ES that initiates a (client) node at that frequency. In most cases, this is not required. Jörg On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Dan Spinner [dan.spinner@sonian.net](mailto:dan.spinner@sonian.net) wrote: > Has anyone else ran into this? > > We didn't have this behavior on 90.5. While testing out 1.1.1 it seems > to happen every minute in the logs for both of the plugins we use which are > siteless. If i create an empty \_site directory for the plugins then the > log entries immediately stop. I've also confirmed that elasticsearch does > start up properly with the empty \_site directory. I couldn't find anything > in the documentation about changes to plugins and the \_site directory. > Curious if anyone else has experienced this, and what they did. > > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKdsXoFnEbefQrmiQWNw41KutwKGTcNfJ0A6\_K3qU1vUAjqD0Q%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKdsXoFnEbefQrmiQWNw41KutwKGTcNfJ0A6_K3qU1vUAjqD0Q%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-1-1-plugins--site-not-found/17843/4 "2014-05-31T18:19:38Z")
I ran into the same issue when I upgraded to 1.x. The code in the plugin service will scan the plugins every minute. You can either disable the lookup or reduce the logging level (which is what I did). -- Ivan On May 31, 2014 7:23 AM, "Dan Spinner" [dan.spinner@sonian.net](mailto:dan.spinner@sonian.net) wrote: > Has anyone else ran into this? > > We didn't have this behavior on 90.5. While testing out 1.1.1 it seems > to happen every minute in the logs for both of the plugins we use which are > siteless. If i create an empty \_site directory for the plugins then the > log entries immediately stop. I've also confirmed that elasticsearch does > start up properly with the empty \_site directory. I couldn't find anything > in the documentation about changes to plugins and the \_site directory. > Curious if anyone else has experienced this, and what they did. > > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQCMt%3DkwfyZG5ty7N4Qme9Lh0UVq8yjzcM31ZyZY9Y971Q%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALY%3DcQCMt%3DkwfyZG5ty7N4Qme9Lh0UVq8yjzcM31ZyZY9Y971Q%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Spinner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dan_spinner/32/1528_2.png) [@Dan\_Spinner](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dan_Spinner)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-1-1-plugins--site-not-found/17843/5 "2014-05-31T18:52:25Z")
Thanks for the tip. Found that our Sensu monitoring is doing some api calls for monitoring cluster health that are triggering the log entry. Mystery solved. Thank you. On Saturday, May 31, 2014 11:23:14 AM UTC-4, David Pilato wrote: > Are you using Marvel or any other monitoring tool? > > Something which call nodes info API for example??? > > -- > David 😉 > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > Le 31 mai 2014 à 16:23, Dan Spinner \<[dan.s...@sonian.net](mailto:dan.s...@sonian.net) \\> a > écrit : > > Has anyone else ran into this? > > We didn't have this behavior on 90.5. While testing out 1.1.1 it seems > to happen every minute in the logs for both of the plugins we use which are > siteless. If i create an empty \_site directory for the plugins then the > log entries immediately stop. I've also confirmed that elasticsearch does > start up properly with the empty \_site directory. I couldn't find anything > in the documentation about changes to plugins and the \_site directory. > Curious if anyone else has experienced this, and what they did. > > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. > /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com) \. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/fbcfb868-14ac-4320-9481-189c6c5c6f6c%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/fbcfb868-14ac-4320-9481-189c6c5c6f6c%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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:** [May 31, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-1-1-1-plugins--site-not-found/17843/6 "2014-05-31T20:59:29Z")
This could help: [Elastic — The Search AI Company | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cluster-nodes-info.html#cluster-nodes-info) if your plugin data is subject to change use plugins.info\_refresh\_interval to change or disable the caching interval: # Change cache to 20 seconds plugins.info\_refresh\_interval: 20s # Infinite cache plugins.info\_refresh\_interval: -1 # Disable cache plugins.info\_refresh\_interval: 0 -- David 😉 Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs Le 31 mai 2014 à 20:52, Dan Spinner [dan.spinner@sonian.net](mailto:dan.spinner@sonian.net) a écrit : Thanks for the tip. Found that our Sensu monitoring is doing some api calls for monitoring cluster health that are triggering the log entry. Mystery solved. Thank you. > On Saturday, May 31, 2014 11:23:14 AM UTC-4, David Pilato wrote: > Are you using Marvel or any other monitoring tool? > > Something which call nodes info API for example??? > > -- > David 😉 > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > > Le 31 mai 2014 à 16:23, Dan Spinner [dan.s...@sonian.net](mailto:dan.s...@sonian.net) a écrit : > > > > Has anyone else ran into this? > > > > We didn't have this behavior on 90.5. While testing out 1.1.1 it seems to happen every minute in the logs for both of the plugins we use which are siteless. If i create an empty \_site directory for the plugins then the log entries immediately stop. I've also confirmed that elasticsearch does start up properly with the empty \_site directory. I couldn't find anything in the documentation about changes to plugins and the \_site directory. Curious if anyone else has experienced this, and what they did. > > > > ## /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:38:52 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#3]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/valve/\_site] directory does not exist. /var/log/es.log:May 23 00:39:09 localhost ES: DEBUG | [elasticsearch[Adversary][management][T#5]] | plugins | [Adversary] [/mnt/es/plugins/jetty/\_site] directory does not exist. > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com). > > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/dcae4d4b-3f57-4e86-a18f-6ab021470b97%40googlegroups.com). > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/fbcfb868-14ac-4320-9481-189c6c5c6f6c%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/fbcfb868-14ac-4320-9481-189c6c5c6f6c%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/EC93B669-2B8B-4B71-9359-BE6D5A9C3824%40pilato.fr](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/EC93B669-2B8B-4B71-9359-BE6D5A9C3824%40pilato.fr). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
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