# Logstash-output-elasticsearch error retry Individual action
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-elasticsearch-error-retry-individual-action/76718
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [February 28, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-elasticsearch-error-retry-individual-action/76718 "2017-02-28T03:45:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jamal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamal)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-elasticsearch-error-retry-individual-action/76718/1 "2017-02-28T03:45:07Z")
I am using **twitter-input** to fetch data from twitter and **ouput-elasticsearch** to store it in elasticsearch
and I am using logstash 5.2.1 in Ubuntu OS when I run it through the following error
```
> [2017-03-02T08:18:45,576][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual actions
> [2017-03-02T08:18:45,576][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Action
> [2017-03-02T08:18:50,796][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 503 ({"type"=>"unavailable_shards_exception", "reason"=>"[twitter_news][0] primary shard is not active Timeout: [1m], request: [BulkShardRequest to [twitter_news] containing [1] requests]"})
> [2017-03-02T08:18:50,796][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual actions
> [2017-03-02T08:18:50,796][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Action
> [2017-03-02T08:18:55,840][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 503 ({"type"=>"unavailable_shards_exception", "reason"=>"[twitter_news][0] primary shard is not active Timeout: [1m], request: [BulkShardRequest to [twitter_news] containing [1] requests]"})
> [2017-03-02T08:18:55,840][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual actions
> [2017-03-02T08:18:55,841][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Action
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-elasticsearch-error-retry-individual-action/76718/2 "2017-02-28T03:45:49Z")
Please provide the entire error and your config.
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### Author:  [@jamal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jamal)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-elasticsearch-error-retry-individual-action/76718/3 "2017-02-28T07:50:22Z")
Here is the entire error, please take a look
> ```
> > [2017-03-02T08:18:45,576][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual actions
> > [2017-03-02T08:18:45,576][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Action
> > [2017-03-02T08:18:50,796][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 503 ({"type"=>"unavailable_shards_exception", "reason"=>"[twitter_news][0] primary shard is not active Timeout: [1m], request: [BulkShardRequest to [twitter_news] containing [1] requests]"})
> > [2017-03-02T08:18:50,796][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual actions
> > [2017-03-02T08:18:50,796][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Action
> > [2017-03-02T08:18:55,840][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 503 ({"type"=>"unavailable_shards_exception", "reason"=>"[twitter_news][0] primary shard is not active Timeout: [1m], request: [BulkShardRequest to [twitter_news] containing [1] requests]"})
> > [2017-03-02T08:18:55,840][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual actions
> > [2017-03-02T08:18:55,841][ERROR][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Action
>
> ```
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### Author:  [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2017, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-elasticsearch-error-retry-individual-action/76718/4 "2017-03-02T07:18:47Z")
It looks like your ES cluster isn't in very good health.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2017, 7:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-output-elasticsearch-error-retry-individual-action/76718/5 "2017-03-30T07:18:57Z")
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