# Failed to flush outgoing items - Help appreciated **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 1, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-flush-outgoing-items-help-appreciated/24741 "2015-07-01T15:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bdunbar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@bdunbar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bdunbar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-flush-outgoing-items-help-appreciated/24741/1 "2015-07-01T15:05:15Z")
This happens frequently,and it's a show stopper. Sometimes rebooting the node fixes the problem. Sometimes not. In this case, right now, it's just repeating 'failed to flush' error. What I"m trying to do is load web log data from 2014. I'm running this on node/host ris-webstats01 ``` ls -lah /var/log/muo-2014/app01/domain.com-access_log-20141022 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180M May 28 15:24 /var/log/muo-2014/app01/domain.com-access_log-20141022 ``` Load up screen and execute ... ``` cat /var/log/2014/app01/domain.com-access_log-20141022 | /opt/logstash/bin/logstash -f /root/muo/fileimport.conf ``` fileimport.conf ``` input { stdin { type => "apache" codec => plain { charset => "ISO-8859-1" } } } filter { if [type] == "apache" { grok { match => { "message" => "%{COMBINEDAPACHELOG}" } } date { match => ["timestamp" , "dd/MMM/yyyy:HH:mm:ss Z"] } geoip { source => "clientip" target => "geoip" database => "/etc/logstash/GeoLiteCity.dat" add_field => ["[geoip][coordinates]", "%{[geoip][longitude]}" ] add_field => ["[geoip][coordinates]", "%{[geoip][latitude]}" ] } mutate { convert => ["[geoip][coordinates]", "float"] } if [clientip] in ["10.1.88.11", "10.1.88.12", "10.1.88.13", "10.1.88.14", "10.1.88.15", "10.1.88.16", "10.1.42.117", "10.1.42.118", "10.1.42.119", "10.1.88.21", "10.1.88.22", "10.1.88.23", "10.1.88.24", "10.1.88.25", "10.1.88.26", "10.1.42.127", "10.1.42.128", "10.1.42.129"] { drop {} } } } output { elasticsearch { cluster => "muostats" host => "127.0.0.1" protocol => http index_type => "apache" workers => "1" } } Failed to flush outgoing items {:outgoing_count=>5000, :exception=>#, :backtrace=>["/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/manticore-0.4.1-java/lib/manticore/response.rb:35:in `initialize'", "org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271:in `call'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/manticore-0.4.1-java/lib/manticore/response.rb:61:in `call'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/manticore-0.4.1-java/lib/manticore/response.rb:225:in `call_once'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/manticore-0.4.1-java/lib/manticore/response.rb:128:in `code'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/elasticsearch-transport-1.0.7/lib/elasticsearch/transport/transport/http/manticore.rb:50:in `perform_request'", "org/jruby/RubyProc.java:271:in `call'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/elasticsearch-transport-1.0.7/lib/elasticsearch/transport/transport/base.rb:187:in `perform_request'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/elasticsearch-transport-1.0.7/lib/elasticsearch/transport/transport/http/manticore.rb:33:in `perform_request'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/elasticsearch-transport-1.0.7/lib/elasticsearch/transport/client.rb:115:in `perform_request'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/elasticsearch-api-1.0.7/lib/elasticsearch/api/actions/bulk.rb:80:in `bulk'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-0.2.4-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch/protocol.rb:100:in `bulk'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-0.2.4-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch.rb:437:in `submit'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-0.2.4-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch.rb:462:in `flush'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/stud-0.0.19/lib/stud/buffer.rb:219:in `buffer_flush'", "org/jruby/RubyHash.java:1341:in `each'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/stud-0.0.19/lib/stud/buffer.rb:216:in `buffer_flush'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/stud-0.0.19/lib/stud/buffer.rb:193:in `buffer_flush'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/stud-0.0.19/lib/stud/buffer.rb:159:in `buffer_receive'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-output-elasticsearch-0.2.4-java/lib/logstash/outputs/elasticsearch.rb:426:in `receive'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.0-java/lib/logstash/outputs/base.rb:88:in `handle'", "(eval):159:in `output_func'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.0-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:244:in `outputworker'", "/opt/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/1.9/gems/logstash-core-1.5.0-java/lib/logstash/pipeline.rb:166:in `start_outputs'"], :level=>:warn} ``` top ``` PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1688 es 20 0 13.8g 1.4g 39m S 136.4 8.8 34:20.66 java ``` \_ ``` cat/health 1435761438 07:37:18 muostats green 2 2 1288 644 0 0 0 0 _cat/nodes ris-webstats03 127.0.0.1 98 39 1.04 d * ris-webstats03 ris-webstats01 127.0.0.1 78 15 1.25 d m ris-webstats01 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Ned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/848f3c/32.png) [@Ned](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ned)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-flush-outgoing-items-help-appreciated/24741/2 "2016-03-01T21:38:22Z")
Hi Brian, were you ever able to fix this issue? I seem to be experiencing the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-flush-outgoing-items-help-appreciated/24741/3 "2017-07-05T23:12:16Z")