# Getting "Encountered a retryable error. Will Retry with exponential backoff {:code=\>403, :url=\>"http://127.0.0.1:8800/\_bulk"}"

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-encountered-a-retryable-error-will-retry-with-exponential-backoff-code-403-url-http-127-0-0-1-8800-bulk/245703
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [August 20, 2020, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-encountered-a-retryable-error-will-retry-with-exponential-backoff-code-403-url-http-127-0-0-1-8800-bulk/245703 "2020-08-20T05:13:15Z")
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### Author: ![mostafa\_kamal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mostafa_kamal/32/50914_2.png) [@mostafa\_kamal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mostafa_kamal)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-encountered-a-retryable-error-will-retry-with-exponential-backoff-code-403-url-http-127-0-0-1-8800-bulk/245703/1 "2020-08-20T05:13:15Z")

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I am trying to send logs from filebeat to logstash, but getting the following error message

```
[2020-08-20T06:52:31,108][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch][main][797474f8edf561358316c00f5117e9f69c7d9881a02a0e167b0d2d766731cecb] Encountered a retryable error. Will Retry with exponential backoff {:code=>403, :url=>"http://127.0.0.1:8800/_bulk"}

```

Can anyone help?

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### Author: ![mostafa\_kamal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mostafa_kamal/32/50914_2.png) [@mostafa\_kamal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mostafa_kamal)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-encountered-a-retryable-error-will-retry-with-exponential-backoff-code-403-url-http-127-0-0-1-8800-bulk/245703/2 "2020-08-20T05:39:23Z")

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Being said, 403 is permission related issue.  
Previously, I have configured logstash with logstash\_system user. Now I have used elastic user and its solved.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 5:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/getting-encountered-a-retryable-error-will-retry-with-exponential-backoff-code-403-url-http-127-0-0-1-8800-bulk/245703/3 "2020-09-17T05:39:25Z")

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