# Metricbeat bulk item insert failed and elasticsearch has lots of adding template \* for index patterns \* logs **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** metricbeat\ **Created:** [April 16, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-bulk-item-insert-failed-and-elasticsearch-has-lots-of-adding-template-for-index-patterns-logs/177076 "2019-04-16T11:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jun\_Zhang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jun_zhang/32/25863_2.png) [@Jun\_Zhang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jun_Zhang)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-bulk-item-insert-failed-and-elasticsearch-has-lots-of-adding-template-for-index-patterns-logs/177076/1 "2019-04-16T11:40:54Z")
metricbeat v7.0 logs: > 2019-04-16T19:11:48.356+0800 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:338 PublishEvents: 51 events have been published to elasticsearch in 6.695631ms. > 2019-04-16T19:11:48.356+0800 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:532 Bulk item insert failed (i=0, status=500): {"type":"string\_index\_out\_of\_bounds\_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} > 2019-04-16T19:11:48.356+0800 DEBUG [elasticsearch] elasticsearch/client.go:532 Bulk item insert failed (i=1, status=500): {"type":"string\_index\_out\_of\_bounds\_exception","reason":"String index out of range: 0"} elasticsearch logs: > {"type": "server", "timestamp": "2019-04-16T11:20:53,371+0000", "level": "INFO", "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataIndexTemplateService", "cluster.name": "docker-cluster", "node.name": "565c0c732374", "cluster.uuid": "KT9v6uRzRcyzSfcDeLdrhQ", "node.id": "EPCfP5ERRCSLQBE\_HzutkA", "message": "adding template [metricbeat-devops] for index patterns [metricbeat-devops-_]" } > {"type": "server", "timestamp": "2019-04-16T11:20:54,468+0000", "level": "INFO", "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataIndexTemplateService", "cluster.name": "docker-cluster", "node.name": "565c0c732374", "cluster.uuid": "KT9v6uRzRcyzSfcDeLdrhQ", "node.id": "EPCfP5ERRCSLQBE\_HzutkA", "message": "adding template [metricbeat-devops] for index patterns [metricbeat-devops-_]" } > {"type": "server", "timestamp": "2019-04-16T11:20:55,715+0000", "level": "INFO", "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataIndexTemplateService", "cluster.name": "docker-cluster", "node.name": "565c0c732374", "cluster.uuid": "KT9v6uRzRcyzSfcDeLdrhQ", "node.id": "EPCfP5ERRCSLQBE\_HzutkA", "message": "adding template [metricbeat-devops] for index patterns [metricbeat-devops-_]" } > {"type": "server", "timestamp": "2019-04-16T11:20:58,249+0000", "level": "INFO", "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataIndexTemplateService", "cluster.name": "docker-cluster", "node.name": "565c0c732374", "cluster.uuid": "KT9v6uRzRcyzSfcDeLdrhQ", "node.id": "EPCfP5ERRCSLQBE\_HzutkA", "message": "adding template [metricbeat-devops] for index patterns [metricbeat-devops-_]" } > {"type": "server", "timestamp": "2019-04-16T11:21:00,060+0000", "level": "INFO", "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataIndexTemplateService", "cluster.name": "docker-cluster", "node.name": "565c0c732374", "cluster.uuid": "KT9v6uRzRcyzSfcDeLdrhQ", "node.id": "EPCfP5ERRCSLQBE\_HzutkA", "message": "adding template [metricbeat-devops] for index patterns [metricbeat-devops-_]" } > {"type": "server", "timestamp": "2019-04-16T11:21:01,290+0000", "level": "INFO", "component": "o.e.c.m.MetaDataIndexTemplateService", "cluster.name": "docker-cluster", "node.name": "565c0c732374", "cluster.uuid": "KT9v6uRzRcyzSfcDeLdrhQ", "node.id": "EPCfP5ERRCSLQBE\_HzutkA", "message": "adding template [metricbeat-devops] for index patterns [metricbeat-devops-_]" } metricbeat config: ``` metricbeat.config.modules: path: modules.d/*.yml reload.enabled: true reload.period: 10s name: metricbeat-128071-newbin queue.mem: events: 4096 flush.min_events: 2048 flush.timeout: 1s output.elasticsearch: hosts: ['172.27.128.71:9200'] index: "metricbeat-devops-%{[beat.version]}-%{+yyyy.MM.dd}" worker: 2 bulk_max_size: 150 processors: - add_host_metadata: ~ setup.template: enabled: true overwrite: true name: metricbeat-devops pattern: metricbeat-devops-* settings: index.number_of_shards: 5 index.number_of_replicas: 1 index.refresh_interval: 60s index.merge.scheduler.max_thread_count: 1 index.translog.durability: async index.translog.sync_interval: 30s index.translog.flush_threshold_size: 1gb setup.kibana: host: "http://172.27.128.71:5601" setup.dashboards: enabled: true index: metricbeat-devops-* setup.ilm.enabled: false logging: level: debug to_files: false xpack.monitoring.enabled: true ``` Elasticsearch: > docker run --rm --name es -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e discovery.type=single-node [docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.0.0](http://docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.0.0) Kibana: > docker run --rm --name kibana -p 5601:5601 -e ELASTICSEARCH\_HOSTS=[http://172.27.128.71:9200](http://172.27.128.71:9200) [docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.0.0](http://docker.elastic.co/kibana/kibana:7.0.0) Elasticsearch doesn't have metricbeat-devops-\* index and index pattern. But, when I rename metricbeat-devops to metricbeat, metricbeat-devops-\* to metricbeat-\*, everything work well. ---
**Author:** ![ruflin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ruflin/32/3116_2.png) [@ruflin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ruflin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-bulk-item-insert-failed-and-elasticsearch-has-lots-of-adding-template-for-index-patterns-logs/177076/2 "2019-04-23T11:26:34Z")
Can you try to replace `%{[beat.version]}` with `%{[agent.version]}` and try again? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-bulk-item-insert-failed-and-elasticsearch-has-lots-of-adding-template-for-index-patterns-logs/177076/3 "2019-05-21T11:26:34Z")
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