# IndexMissingException when indexing document on non-existent index

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexmissingexception-when-indexing-document-on-non-existent-index/23446>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 28, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexmissingexception-when-indexing-document-on-non-existent-index/23446 "2015-04-28T17:50:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexmissingexception-when-indexing-document-on-non-existent-index/23446/1 "2015-04-28T17:50:26Z")

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Hello,

I'm running into an IndexMissingException when indexing a document on a  
non-existent index on my application tests. I'm using elasticsearch 1.4.1  
running as a local node for testing purposes as following:

private lazy val node =  
nodeBuilder().clusterName(clusterName).local(true).settings(settings).build

The index is supposed to be auto created when indexing a document for the  
first time. The curious thing is that I can reproduce this issue  
systematically only on our jenkins server, which rans the application  
tests. On my local development environment, the exception is rarely  
reproduced. This makes me think about a race condition somewhere between  
the index creation and the actual document indexing.

Below is the complete exception stack trace:

org.elasticsearch.indices.IndexMissingException: [index-name] missing  
at  
org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetaData.concreteIndices(MetaData.java:768)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetaData.concreteIndices(MetaData.java:691)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetaData.concreteSingleIndex(MetaData.java:748)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction.doStart(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:361)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction$AsyncShardOperationAction.start(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:342)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.replication.TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.doExecute(TransportShardReplicationOperationAction.java:97)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.innerExecute(TransportIndexAction.java:134)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction.access$000(TransportIndexAction.java:60)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction$1.onResponse(TransportIndexAction.java:94)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.index.TransportIndexAction$1.onResponse(TransportIndexAction.java:91)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction$ThreadedActionListener$1.run(TransportAction.java:113)  
~[elasticsearch-1.4.1.jar:na]  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)  
~[na:1.7.0\_40]  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)  
~[na:1.7.0\_40]  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) ~[na:1.7.0\_40]

¿Does anyone ran into this issue before? ¿Can you help me figure out what  
might be the problem?

Thanks in advance,  
Damián.

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