# Logging reasons for indices.indexing.index\_failed

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logging-reasons-for-indices-indexing-index-failed/63389>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 19, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logging-reasons-for-indices-indexing-index-failed/63389 "2016-10-19T12:22:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![hgfxng](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/aeb1de/32.png) [@hgfxng](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hgfxng)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logging-reasons-for-indices-indexing-index-failed/63389/1 "2016-10-19T12:22:56Z")

</div>

Hi,

I'm tracking indices.indexing.index\_failed but I don't know the reason for the numbers I'm seeing. Is it possible to enable some logging on ES to start logging the reasons of the failed indexing?

best

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logging-reasons-for-indices-indexing-index-failed/63389/2 "2017-07-05T22:11:15Z")

</div>