# FSCrawler2.6 : failed to create elasticsearch client, disabling crawler **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 29, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler2-6-failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client-disabling-crawler/271701 "2021-04-29T18:46:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joseph-l.amalraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@joseph-l.amalraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joseph-l.amalraj)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler2-6-failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client-disabling-crawler/271701/1 "2021-04-29T18:46:04Z")
Hi, Can you please share your suggestions for this issue.. I am using FSCrawler v2.6 and my ELK v6.8.14.. when i tried to ingest pdf files, getting below errors.. FYI.. with the same settings.json and data, i was able to run in FSCrawler v2.4. ```auto 16:31:16,867 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.f.FsCrawlerUtil] Mapping [2/_settings.json] already exists 16:31:16,870 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.f.FsCrawlerUtil] Mapping [2/_settings_folder.json] already exists 16:31:16,871 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.f.FsCrawlerUtil] Mapping [5/_settings.json] already exists 16:31:16,871 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.f.FsCrawlerUtil] Mapping [5/_settings_folder.json] already exists 16:31:16,872 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.f.FsCrawlerUtil] Mapping [6/_settings.json] already exists 16:31:16,872 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.f.FsCrawlerUtil] Mapping [6/_settings_folder.json] already exists 16:31:16,875 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.c.FsCrawler] Starting job [processformstemplates]... **16:31:17,270 WARN [f.p.e.c.f.c.ElasticsearchClientManager] failed to create elasticsearch client, disabling crawler...** **16:31:17,270 FATAL [f.p.e.c.f.c.FsCrawler] Fatal error received while running the crawler: [null]** **16:31:17,270 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.c.FsCrawler] error caught** **java.lang.NullPointerException: null** at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.client.ElasticsearchClient.lambda$buildRestClient$0(ElasticsearchClient.java:333) ~[fscrawler-elasticsearch-client-2.6-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1257) ~[?:1.8.0_181] at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.client.ElasticsearchClient.buildRestClient(ElasticsearchClient.java:322) ~[fscrawler-elasticsearch-client-2.6-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.client.ElasticsearchClientManager.start(ElasticsearchClientManager.java:91) ~[fscrawler-elasticsearch-client-2.6-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] at fr.pilato.elasticsearch.crawler.fs.cli.FsCrawler.main(FsCrawler.java:260) [fscrawler-cli-2.6-SNAPSHOT.jar:?] 16:31:17,273 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] Closing FS crawler [processformstemplates] 16:31:17,274 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.c.ElasticsearchClientManager] Closing Elasticsearch client manager 16:31:17,274 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] ES Client Manager stopped 16:31:17,274 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] FS crawler [processformstemplates] stopped 16:31:17,275 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] Closing FS crawler [processformstemplates] 16:31:17,275 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.c.ElasticsearchClientManager] Closing Elasticsearch client manager 16:31:17,275 DEBUG [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] ES Client Manager stopped 16:31:17,275 INFO [f.p.e.c.f.FsCrawlerImpl] FS crawler [processformstemplates] stopped ``` And **my \_settings.json..** ```auto $ cat _settings.json ``` ```auto { "name" : "processformstemplates", "fs" : { "url" : "/usr/share/fscrawler/data", "update_rate" : "15m", "excludes" : ["*/~*"], "json_support" : false, "filename_as_id" : false, "add_filesize" : true, "remove_deleted" : true, "add_as_inner_object" : false, "store_source" : false, "index_content" : true, "attributes_support" : false, "raw_metadata" : true, "xml_support" : false, "index_folders" : true, "lang_detect" : false, "continue_on_error" : false, "pdf_ocr" : true, "ocr" : { "language" : "eng" } }, "elasticsearch" : { "nodes" : [ { "url" : "http://elasticsearch-dev.svc.cluster.local:9200" } ], "bulk_size" : 100, "flush_interval" : "5s", "byte_size" : "10mb" }, "rest" : { "url" : "http://127.0.0.1:8080/fscrawler" } } ``` Thanks, Joseph ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 7:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler2-6-failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client-disabling-crawler/271701/2 "2021-04-29T19:11:01Z")
You should upgrade to FSCrawler 2.7-SNAPSHOT. (I'm working to release it soon but that's definitely the most stable version) ---
**Author:** ![joseph-l.amalraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@joseph-l.amalraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joseph-l.amalraj)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler2-6-failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client-disabling-crawler/271701/3 "2021-04-30T01:57:18Z")
Thanks for your response. If we need go for FS Crawler 2.7, then we should change ELK version to 7.x, is my understanding right ?.. ---
**Author:** ![joseph-l.amalraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@joseph-l.amalraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joseph-l.amalraj)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler2-6-failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client-disabling-crawler/271701/4 "2021-04-30T02:00:23Z")
Please share your suggestions, if we have workaround for FSCrawler 2.6 to resolve the issue. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler2-6-failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client-disabling-crawler/271701/5 "2021-04-30T02:09:41Z")
No. There's a version for es 6 clusters. See [Index of /repositories/snapshots/fr/pilato/elasticsearch/crawler/fscrawler-es6/2.7-SNAPSHOT](https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/fr/pilato/elasticsearch/crawler/fscrawler-es6/2.7-SNAPSHOT/) ---
**Author:** ![joseph-l.amalraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/da6949/32.png) [@joseph-l.amalraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joseph-l.amalraj)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 2:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler2-6-failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client-disabling-crawler/271701/6 "2021-04-30T02:13:39Z")
Hi David, are you saying " There's a version for es 6 clusters." for FSCrawler 2.7?. Please clarify. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler2-6-failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client-disabling-crawler/271701/7 "2021-04-30T02:16:06Z")
Yes. See [Download FSCrawler — FSCrawler 2.7-SNAPSHOT documentation](https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html) Depending on your Elasticsearch cluster version, you can download FSCrawler 2.7 using the following links: - [fscrawler-es7-2.7-SNAPSHOT](https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/fr/pilato/elasticsearch/crawler/fscrawler-es7/2.7-SNAPSHOT/) for Elasticsearch V7. - [fscrawler-es6-2.7-SNAPSHOT](https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/fr/pilato/elasticsearch/crawler/fscrawler-es6/2.7-SNAPSHOT/) for Elasticsearch V6. The filename ends with `.zip` . ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 2:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fscrawler2-6-failed-to-create-elasticsearch-client-disabling-crawler/271701/8 "2021-05-28T02:16:41Z")
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