# Logstash errors retrying failed action with response code 500

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-retrying-failed-action-with-response-code-500/245466>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [August 18, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-retrying-failed-action-with-response-code-500/245466 "2020-08-18T16:07:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![srk1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/srk1/32/88697_2.png) [@srk1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srk1)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-retrying-failed-action-with-response-code-500/245466/1 "2020-08-18T16:07:20Z")

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Hello ES experts,  
My logstash logs are completely being filled with below errors which is blocking me to see the information regarding other pipelines. I tried looking for this particular problem but it doesn't look like there is enough information out here. Can someone please take a look and let me know where and what to start with?

[2020-08-18T16:51:34,315][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 500 ({"type"=\>"illegal\_state\_exception", "reason"=\>"There are no external requests known to support wildcards that don't support replacing their indices"})  
[2020-08-18T16:51:34,315][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 500 ({"type"=\>"illegal\_state\_exception", "reason"=\>"There are no external requests known to support wildcards that don't support replacing their indices"})  
[2020-08-18T16:51:34,315][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 500 ({"type"=\>"illegal\_state\_exception", "reason"=\>"There are no external requests known to support wildcards that don't support replacing their indices"})  
Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/badger/32/25190_2.png) [@Badger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Badger)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-retrying-failed-action-with-response-code-500/245466/2 "2020-08-18T16:15:30Z")

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> [@srk1](#):
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> There are no external requests known to support wildcards that don't support replacing their indices

If you look in the elasticsearch logs is there a stack trace for that exception?

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**Author:** ![srk1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/srk1/32/88697_2.png) [@srk1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srk1)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-retrying-failed-action-with-response-code-500/245466/3 "2020-08-18T16:29:40Z")

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Hi Badger,  
I don't see anything related to this exception other than few dangling index warnings but this issue been there before the dangling index issue.

Thanks,  
Sankeerth.

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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 15, 2020, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-errors-retrying-failed-action-with-response-code-500/245466/4 "2020-09-15T16:29:45Z")

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