# Failed to publish events: temporary bulk send failure for custom ES index **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [May 26, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-temporary-bulk-send-failure-for-custom-es-index/234387 "2020-05-26T16:33:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robsv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@robsv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robsv)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-temporary-bulk-send-failure-for-custom-es-index/234387/1 "2020-05-26T16:33:58Z")
I am trying to set up a custom index name for Metricbeat to use in ES (so I can have more than one server send to the same ES). When I start metricbeat with systemctl, it gets in a loop and constantly throws a "Failed to publish events: temporary bulk send failure" error and retries. Here is the relevant portion of /etc/metricbeat/metricbeat.yml: #-------------------------- Elasticsearch output ------------------------------ output.elasticsearch: # Array of hosts to connect to. hosts: ["c13u09:9200"] index: "c11u07-metricbeat-%{[beat.version]}-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}" setup.template.name: "c11u07-metricbeat" setup.template.fields: "fields.yml" setup.template.pattern: "c11u07-metricbeat-\*" setup.template.enabled: true setup.template.overwrite: true setup.ilm.enabled: false I am running metricbeat 7.7.0 and attempting to connect to ES 7.2.0. I do have this running on c13u09 (with the default index name) and that's working. Any help greatly appreciated! ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_Kristiansen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex_kristiansen/32/46086_2.png) [@Alex\_Kristiansen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Kristiansen)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-temporary-bulk-send-failure-for-custom-es-index/234387/2 "2020-05-29T18:23:59Z")
@robsv, Can you set `logging.level` to `debug` in the config and run this again? Can you send us a sample of those debug logs? ---
**Author:** ![robsv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@robsv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robsv)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 2:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-temporary-bulk-send-failure-for-custom-es-index/234387/3 "2020-06-01T14:05:34Z")
It looks like an index error of some sort. A snippet from the log follows. Thanks, Rob ```auto Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.562-0400 INFO template/load.go:101 template with name 'c11u07-metricbeat' loaded. Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.562-0400 INFO [index-management] idxmgmt/std.go:295 Loaded index template. Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.562-0400 INFO [publisher_pipeline_output] pipeline/output.go:111 Connection to backoff(elasticsearch(http://c13u09.int.janelia.org:9200)) established Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:217 PublishEvents: 41 events have been published to elasticsearch in 8.591569ms. Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:390 Bulk item insert failed (i=0, status=500): {"type":"string_index_out_of_bounds_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:390 Bulk item insert failed (i=1, status=500): {"type":"string_index_out_of_bounds_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:390 Bulk item insert failed (i=2, status=500): {"type":"string_index_out_of_bounds_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:390 Bulk item insert failed (i=3, status=500): {"type":"string_index_out_of_bounds_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:390 Bulk item insert failed (i=4, status=500): {"type":"string_index_out_of_bounds_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:390 Bulk item insert failed (i=5, status=500): {"type":"string_index_out_of_bounds_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:390 Bulk item insert failed (i=6, status=500): {"type":"string_index_out_of_bounds_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:390 Bulk item insert failed (i=7, status=500): {"type":"string_index_out_of_bounds_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:390 Bulk item insert failed (i=8, status=500): {"type":"string_index_out_of_bounds_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} Jun 01 09:45:08 c11u07.int.janelia.org metricbeat[55247]: 2020-06-01T09:45:08.571-0400 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:390 Bulk item insert failed (i=9, status=500): {"type":"string_index_out_of_bounds_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} ``` ---
**Author:** ![robsv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecc23a/32.png) [@robsv](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robsv)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-temporary-bulk-send-failure-for-custom-es-index/234387/4 "2020-06-01T16:34:05Z")
> [@robsv](#): > > index: "c11u07-metricbeat-%{[beat.version]}-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}" Okay, it seems the problem is "beat.version" in index: "c11u07-metricbeat-%{[beat.version]}-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}" I changed it to: index: "c11u07-metricbeat-%{[agent.version]}-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}" and it's working. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-publish-events-temporary-bulk-send-failure-for-custom-es-index/234387/5 "2020-06-29T16:34:09Z")
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