# Metricbeat service not indexing data in elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-service-not-indexing-data-in-elasticsearch/152705>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** metricbeat\
**Created:** [October 16, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-service-not-indexing-data-in-elasticsearch/152705 "2018-10-16T18:15:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![aviral\_srivastava](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aviral_srivastava/32/98018_2.png) [@aviral\_srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviral_srivastava)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-service-not-indexing-data-in-elasticsearch/152705/1 "2018-10-16T18:15:51Z")

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard  
metricbeat-6.4.0

I am getting below error in metricbeat:

elasticsearch/client.go:520 Cannot index event publisher.Event{Content:beat.Event{Timestamp:time.Time{wall:0xbee9999910ae25d0, ext:5100668741501, loc:(\*time.Location)(0x29456e0)}, Meta:common.MapStr(nil), Fields:common.MapStr{"system":common.MapStr{"core":common.MapStr{"idle":common.MapStr{"pct":0.5369}, "nice":common.MapStr{"pct":0}, "softirq":common.MapStr{"pct":0}, "steal":common.MapStr{"pct":0}, "irq":common.MapStr{"pct":0}, "user":common.MapStr{"pct":0.2964}, "iowait":common.MapStr{"pct":0}, "id":0, "system":common.MapStr{"pct":0.1666}}}, "metricset":common.MapStr{"name":"core", "module":"system"}, "beat":common.MapStr{"name":"IN-AIR-INEADM", "hostname":"IN-AIR-INEADM", "version":"6.4.0"}, "host":common.MapStr{"name":"IN-AIR-INEADM"}}, Private:interface {}(nil)}, Flags:0x0} (status=403): {"type":"cluster\_block\_exception","reason":"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/12/index read-only / allow delete (api)];"}

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-service-not-indexing-data-in-elasticsearch/152705/2 "2018-10-16T18:32:08Z")

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It can be an indication that you Elasticsearch cluster is running out of disk space.

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**Author:** ![aviral\_srivastava](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aviral_srivastava/32/98018_2.png) [@aviral\_srivastava](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aviral_srivastava)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 9:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-service-not-indexing-data-in-elasticsearch/152705/3 "2018-10-17T09:26:18Z")

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Thanks, actually my disk was 96% occupied. After emptying, metricbeat is indexing data.

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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:** [November 14, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/metricbeat-service-not-indexing-data-in-elasticsearch/152705/4 "2018-11-14T09:29:06Z")

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