# Failed to execute pipeline for a bulk request

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-pipeline-for-a-bulk-request/136783>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 21, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-pipeline-for-a-bulk-request/136783 "2018-06-21T05:15:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![anuragh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@anuragh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/anuragh)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-pipeline-for-a-bulk-request/136783/1 "2018-06-21T05:15:42Z")

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[2018-06-21T00:00:09,645][ERROR][o.e.a.b.TransportBulkAction] [ddlplels105] failed to execute pipeline for a bulk request  
org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsRejectedExecutionException: rejected execution of org.elasticsearch.ingest.PipelineExecutionService$2@5a7a8c26 on EsThreadPoolExecutor[bulk, queue capacity = 200, org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsThreadPoolExecutor@32ffb8e5[Running, pool size = 8, active threads = 8, queued tasks = 200, completed tasks = 395430]]  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsAbortPolicy.rejectedExecution(EsAbortPolicy.java:50) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.reject(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:830) ~[?:1.8.0\_171]  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.execute(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1379) ~[?:1.8.0\_171]  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsThreadPoolExecutor.doExecute(EsThreadPoolExecutor.java:94) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsThreadPoolExecutor.execute(EsThreadPoolExecutor.java:89) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at org.elasticsearch.ingest.PipelineExecutionService.executeBulkRequest(PipelineExecutionService.java:74) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction.processBulkIndexIngestRequest(TransportBulkAction.java:508) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction.doExecute(TransportBulkAction.java:136) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at org.elasticsearch.action.bulk.TransportBulkAction.doExecute(TransportBulkAction.java:85) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction$RequestFilterChain.proceed(TransportAction.java:170) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction.execute(TransportAction.java:142) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction.execute(TransportAction.java:84) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at org.elasticsearch.client.node.NodeClient.executeLocally(NodeClient.java:83) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]  
at org.elasticsearch.client.node.NodeClient.doExecute(NodeClient.java:72) ~[elasticsearch-5.4.3.jar:5.4.3]

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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:** [June 21, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-pipeline-for-a-bulk-request/136783/2 "2018-06-21T05:42:05Z")

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What is the specification of your Elasticsearch cluster?

What does CPU usage look like while you are indexing?

Have you read [this blog post about bulk rejections](https://www.elastic.co/blog/why-am-i-seeing-bulk-rejections-in-my-elasticsearch-cluster)?

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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:** [July 19, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-pipeline-for-a-bulk-request/136783/3 "2018-07-19T05:42:10Z")

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