# Filebeat unable to send data to elastic search. ( Failed to publish events: Post + Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers )
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-data-to-elastic-search-failed-to-publish-events-post-client-timeout-exceeded-while-awaiting-headers/233171
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [May 18, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-data-to-elastic-search-failed-to-publish-events-post-client-timeout-exceeded-while-awaiting-headers/233171 "2020-05-18T18:10:54Z")
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### Author:  [@ramakrushna.sahu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramakrushna.sahu)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-data-to-elastic-search-failed-to-publish-events-post-client-timeout-exceeded-while-awaiting-headers/233171/1 "2020-05-18T18:10:55Z")
Filebeat unable to send data to elastic search and shows error as below.
May 18 23:37:03 filebeat\_host filebeat[18405]: 2020-05-18T23:37:03.595+0530 ERROR pipeline/output.go:121 Failed to publish events: Post https://es\_node1:9200/\_bulk: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
# Similar error for the other two-node as well.
On Es side we are getting some error as below,
[2020-05-18T18:13:47,864][INFO][o.e.x.i.IndexLifecycleRunner] [master.elasticsearch.node] policy [filebeat] for index [test\_dev-14] on an error step due to a transitive error, moving back to the failed step [check-rollover-ready] for execution. retry attempt [287]
[2020-05-18T18:13:47,866][ERROR][o.e.x.i.IndexLifecycleRunner] [master.elasticsearch.node] policy [filebeat] for index [index\_Test2] failed on step [{"phase":"hot","action":"rollover","name":"check-rollover-ready"}]. Moving to ERROR step
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: index.lifecycle.rollover\_alias [ai\_secops\_filebeat\_broadcomit] does not point to index [ai\_secops\_filebeat\_broadcomit]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ilm.WaitForRolloverReadyStep.evaluateCondition(WaitForRolloverReadyStep.java:104) [x-pack-core-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.ilm.IndexLifecycleRunner.runPeriodicStep(IndexLifecycleRunner.java:152) [x-pack-ilm-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.ilm.IndexLifecycleService.triggerPolicies(IndexLifecycleService.java:328) [x-pack-ilm-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.ilm.IndexLifecycleService.triggered(IndexLifecycleService.java:266) [x-pack-ilm-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.scheduler.SchedulerEngine.notifyListeners(SchedulerEngine.java:183) [x-pack-core-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2]
at org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.scheduler.SchedulerEngine$ActiveSchedule.run(SchedulerEngine.java:211) [x-pack-core-7.6.2.jar:7.6.2]
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:515) [?:?]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264) [?:?]
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:304) [?:?]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) [?:?]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) [?:?]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:830) [?:?]
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### Author:  [@ramakrushna.sahu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ramakrushna.sahu)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-data-to-elastic-search-failed-to-publish-events-post-client-timeout-exceeded-while-awaiting-headers/233171/2 "2020-05-18T18:35:21Z")
The issue is resolved.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2020, 6:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-unable-to-send-data-to-elastic-search-failed-to-publish-events-post-client-timeout-exceeded-while-awaiting-headers/233171/3 "2020-06-15T18:35:30Z")
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