# Failed to execute pipeline for a bulk request,butiostat ,iotop,loadavage,cpu is low

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-pipeline-for-a-bulk-request-butiostat-iotop-loadavage-cpu-is-low/99978>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 10, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-pipeline-for-a-bulk-request-butiostat-iotop-loadavage-cpu-is-low/99978 "2017-09-10T16:54:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_ax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@John\_ax](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_ax)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-pipeline-for-a-bulk-request-butiostat-iotop-loadavage-cpu-is-low/99978/1 "2017-09-10T16:54:34Z")

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hi I am using ES5.5  
failed to execute pipeline for a bulk request,butiostat ,iotop,loadavage,cpu is low, what is es doing,?

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[2017-09-11T00:50:54,198][ERROR][o.e.a.b.TransportBulkAction] [tVsCQ08] failed to execute pipeline for a bulk request
org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsRejectedExecutionException: rejected execution of org.elasticsearch.ingest.PipelineExecutionService$2@67694a40 on EsThreadPoolExecutor[bulk, queue capacity = 200, org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsThreadPoolExecutor@f6f4880[Running, pool size = 24, active threads = 24, queued tasks = 200, completed tasks = 86725255]]

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-pipeline-for-a-bulk-request-butiostat-iotop-loadavage-cpu-is-low/99978/2 "2017-09-10T18:09:56Z")

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Is there anything is the Elasticsearch logs? Do you have monitoring installed? What does heap usage look like? How many concurrent bulk requests are you sending? How many shards to these actively index into?

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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:** [October 8, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-pipeline-for-a-bulk-request-butiostat-iotop-loadavage-cpu-is-low/99978/3 "2017-10-08T18:09:59Z")

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