# Failed to index Bulk Items Error in ES Logs **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 16, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-index-bulk-items-error-in-es-logs/29364 "2015-09-16T06:05:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 6:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-index-bulk-items-error-in-es-logs/29364/1 "2015-09-16T06:05:43Z")
Hi, I am seeing quite a few warnings in my logstash saying `"Failed action with response of 400, dropping action"`. In elasticsearch log I am seeing corresponding error as `failed to execute bulk item (index) index`. This is not happening every time. Can some one let me know what is going wrong. I have a simple ES Cluster with 3 ES Data-Master node & 1 ES Client Node. The index is having 7 shards with replication factor 1. All machines are having 64 GB RAM, 32 Core, 2TB Disk & running Debian 8. A single logstash is pushing logs to ES Client with the below configurations:- ``` output { elasticsearch { index => "jab-%{env}-%{app}-%{iver}-%{[@metadata][app_log_time]}" cluster => "elasticsearch" host => "es-client" port => "9300" protocol => "transport" } file { path => "/var/log/shop/%{env}/%{app}/%{app}_%{host}_%{[@metadata][app_log_time]}.log" } } ``` The ES log message is as following:- ``` elasticsearch.log:[2015-09-16 01:22:37,954][DEBUG][action.bulk] [ESMasterData2] [jab-prod-reincarnation-v1-2015-09-16][0] failed to execute bulk item (index) index {[jab-prod-reincarnation-v1-2015-09-16][lumberjack][AU_UmY2o7YuwugZ18KCl], source[{"timestamp":"2015-09-16T10:51:54.854+05:30","level":"error","reqId":"39624368-71de-4d47-8103-9f40a4973ba9","sessionId":"cef145fe40d48fefef4430f1270dfaeaf28a12615aca2b01c72c2c508e970a38","content":{"message":"TRACKING DATA POPULATION FAILED","loggedIn":"0","clientRequest":{"url":"/river-island-Black-Free-Item-651511.html","path":"/pdp","method":"GET","originalUrl":"/river-island-Black-Free-Item-651511.html","query":{},"bodyExists":false,"headers":{"connection":"upgrade","host":"www.jab.com","accept":"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.85 Safari/537.36","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.8","cookie":"SITEID=new_site_25; __sonar=18274130205066917707;__ utma=93690246.789214969.1442344107.1442344107.1442344107.1; __utmz=93690246.1442344107.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); _vz=viz_55f72a1a2a061; referrer=direct","x-waf-network":"DmUF7sMn","jade-true-client-ip":"122.162.248.254","x-akamai-config-log-detail":"true","accept-encoding":"gzip","akamai-origin-hop":"2","via":"1.0 v1-akamaitech.net(ghost) (AkamaiGHost), 1.1 akamai.net(ghost) (AkamaiGHost)","x-forwarded-for":"122.162.248.254, 96.17.182.144, 59.144.112.204, 127.0.0.1","cache-control":"max-age=0","x-akamai-prefetched-object":"1"}},"exception":{"realm":"TypeError","stack":"TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined\n at Object.PDP (/var/www/html/reincarnation/api/pojo/viewObjects/Tracking/Doubleclick/PDP.js:18:42)\n at /var/www/html/reincarnation/api/models/Tracking.js:45:87\n at Function.forEach (/var/www/html/reincarnation/node_modules/lodash/dist/lodash.js:3298:15)\n at Object.Tracking.getProviderData (/var/www/html/reincarnation/api/models/Tracking.js:40:11)\n at /var/www/html/reincarnation/api/controllers/PDPController.js:50:56\n at tryCatcher (/var/www/html/reincarnation/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/util.js:26:23)\n at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/var/www/html/reincarnation/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:503:31)\n at Promise._settlePromiseAt (/var/www/html/reincarnation/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/promise.js:577:18)\n at Async._drainQueue (/var/www/html/reincarnation/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:128:12)\n at Async._drainQueues (/var/www/html/reincarnation/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:133:10)\n at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (/var/www/html/reincarnation/node_modules/bluebird/js/main/async.js:15:14)\n at Immediate.wrapped [as _onImmediate] (/var/www/html/reincarnation/node_modules/newrelic/lib/transaction/tracer/index.js:157:28)\n at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:358:17)","errorCode":{"key":"JBxDefault","value":"Opps! Something went wrong."},"message":"Cannot read property 'name' of undefined"}},"@version":"1","@timestamp":"2015-09-16T05:21:56.108Z","type":"lumberjack","file":"/var/log/reincarnation/reincarnation.log.2015-09-16","host":"reincarnation10","offset":"11700676","app":"reincarnation","env":"prod","iver":"v1"}]} ``` ---
**Author:** ![Deb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/deb/32/46162_2.png) [@Deb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Deb)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-index-bulk-items-error-in-es-logs/29364/2 "2015-09-18T04:05:40Z")
Can some one let me know when does this error, `failed to execute bulk item (index) index` show up and what does that mean? ---
**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, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-index-bulk-items-error-in-es-logs/29364/3 "2017-07-05T23:49:30Z")