Getting curator 'Schema error'

[cool999 (cool)]

Hi Team,

I have installed curator-5.8.1 but can see its not working from day one.

Getting below error in/var/log/curator_snapshot_backup.log

2021-07-21 02:00:02,232 ERROR     Schema error: expected dict for dictionary value @ data['actions']
2021-07-22 02:00:05,408 ERROR     Schema error: expected dict for dictionary value @ data['actions']
2021-07-23 02:00:08,351 ERROR     Schema error: expected dict for dictionary value @ data['actions']

below is cron entry to run

#Ansible: Curator Delete indices
0 0 * * * /root/curatorvenv/bin/python3 /opt/curator-5.8.1/run_curator.py --config /opt/curator-5.8.1/curator.yaml /opt/curator-5.8.1/actions/delete_indices.yml
#Ansible: Curator Backup all indices
0 2 * * * /root/curatorvenv/bin/python3 /opt/curator-5.8.1/run_curator.py --config /opt/curator-5.8.1/curator.yaml /opt/curator-5.8.1/actions/snapshot_backup.yml >> /var/log/curator_snapshot_backup.log 2>&1

Config file -

cat /opt/curator-5.8.1/curator.yaml

---
# Ansible managed
# Remember, leave a key empty if there is no value.  None will be a string,
# not a Python "NoneType"
client:
  hosts: ['http://10.191.191.100:5200', 'http://10.191.191.101:5200', 'http://10.191.191.102:5200']
  port: 5200
  url_prefix:
  use_ssl: False
  certificate:
  client_cert:
  client_key:
  aws_key:
  aws_secret_key:
  aws_region:
  ssl_no_validate: False
  http_auth: elastic:xxx
  timeout: 30
  master_only: False

logging:
  loglevel: INFO
  logfile:
  logformat: default
  blacklist: ['elasticsearch', 'urllib3']

delete action is

cat /opt/curator-5.8.1/actions/delete_indices.yml

# Ansible managed
actions:
  1:
    action: delete_indices
    description: >-
      Delete indices older than 60 days (based on index name).
    options:
      ignore_empty_list: True
      timeout_override:
      continue_if_exception: True
      disable_action: False
    filters:
    - filtertype: pattern
      kind: prefix
      value: metricbeat
      exclude:
    - filtertype: age
      source: name
      direction: older
      timestring: "%Y.%m.%d"
      unit: days
      unit_count: 60
      exclude:
  2:
    action: delete_indices
    description: >-
      Delete indices older than 60 days (based on index name).
    options:
      ignore_empty_list: True
      timeout_override:
      continue_if_exception: True
      disable_action: False
    filters:
    - filtertype: pattern
      kind: prefix
      value: heartbeat
      exclude:
    - filtertype: age
      source: name
      direction: older
      timestring: "%Y.%m.%d"
      unit: days
      unit_count: 60
      exclude:
  3:
    action: delete_indices
    description: >-
      Delete indices older than 60 days (based on index name).
    options:
      ignore_empty_list: True
      timeout_override:
      continue_if_exception: True
      disable_action: False
    filters:
    - filtertype: pattern
      kind: prefix
      value: filebeat
      exclude:
    - filtertype: age
      source: name
      direction: older
      timestring: "%Y.%m.%d"
      unit: days
      unit_count: 60
      exclude:
  4:
    action: delete_indices
    description: >-
      Delete indices older than 60 days (based on index name).
    options:
      ignore_empty_list: True
      timeout_override:
      continue_if_exception: True
      disable_action: False
    filters:
    - filtertype: pattern
      kind: prefix
      value: .monitoring
      exclude:
    - filtertype: age
      source: name
      direction: older
      timestring: "%Y.%m.%d"
      unit: days
      unit_count: 3
      exclude:

[root@ ~]# cat /opt/curator-5.8.1/actions/snapshot_backup.yml
# Ansible managed
actions:
[root@ ~]#

Can someone point me where is the issue?

Thanks,

[cool999 (cool)]

Hi,

Can someone please reply.

[theuntergeek (Aaron Mildenstein)]

Sorry, was away on PTO.

The empty action file with only actions: and nothing else is the problem. There is no dictionary for actions, it appears to be a regular key/value pair. This is what is causing the problem.