# Failed to create elasticsearch client
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client/256243
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [November 21, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client/256243 "2020-11-21T19:25:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Deviad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deviad)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client/256243/1 "2020-11-21T19:25:57Z")
Hello everyone,
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I am running elasticsearch in a container and fscrawler throws:
19:06:59.272 [main] FATAL fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.cli.FsCrawlerCli - We can not start Elasticsearch Client. Exiting.
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
Thank you in advance for your help.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client/256243/2 "2020-12-15T10:45:50Z")
Is your elasticsearch node running?
Could you share elasticsearch logs?
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It would be great if you could update your post to solve this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client/256243/3 "2021-01-12T10:45:56Z")
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