# Logstash not importing data into elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-importing-data-into-elasticsearch/88197
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [June 4, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-importing-data-into-elasticsearch/88197 "2017-06-04T17:38:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@amilus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/amilus)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-importing-data-into-elasticsearch/88197/1 "2017-06-04T17:38:36Z")
i'm importing data from twitter through logstash into elasticsearch, it was working just fine but since a \> few days it stopped working, and im getting this error, could someone help me please
> ```
> [2017-06-04T18:25:39,590][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 503 ({"type"=>"unavailable_shards_exception", "reason"=>"[twitter][0] primary shard is not active Timeout: [1m], request: [BulkShardRequest [[twitter][0]] containing [index {[twitter][tweets][AVx0IyYJK-65trS-lqT9], source[n/a, actual length: [6.2kb], max length: 2kb]}]]"})
> [2017-06-04T18:25:39,592][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual bulk actions that failed or were rejected by the previous bulk request. {:count=>1}
>
> ```
---
### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-importing-data-into-elasticsearch/88197/2 "2017-06-05T03:02:13Z")
Looks like ES has some problems.
If you run `_cat/indices` against ES what does it show?
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-not-importing-data-into-elasticsearch/88197/3 "2017-07-03T03:02:22Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.