# Missing in bulk response
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-in-bulk-response/9282
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 9, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-in-bulk-response/9282 "2012-10-09T01:35:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@arta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arta)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-in-bulk-response/9282/1 "2012-10-09T01:35:15Z")
Hi,
Often times I observe that Java BulkItemResponse does not contain some of documents I put in the corresponding BulkRequest.
I don't see any error log in ES's log file.
(I have action: DEBUG in logging.yml)
Please guide me where to look at.
Thank you for your help.
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### Author:  [@arta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arta)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-in-bulk-response/9282/2 "2012-10-10T21:46:54Z")
I found on the client side, I have following error:
ERROR; ... bulk request:org.elasticsearch.ElasticSearchTimeoutException: Timeout waiting for task.
This must be the reason why I don't see any document ids in the BulkResponse.
I don't see any corresponding errors/infos in any of elasticsearch data nodes.
(my client is not a data node. it is a Java client node).
It is happening now and this time the error is only from one of my indices.
(I issue bulk requests by index. I have 70+ indices.)
The other day, I saw the problem from some (but not all) indices.
Please help me where I should look at to investigate further.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-in-bulk-response/9282/3 "2012-10-11T07:46:08Z")
Hiya
On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 14:46 -0700, arta wrote:
> I found on the client side, I have following error:
> ERROR;[search.analyzer.ElasticSearchIndexer:303][BatchingQueue-timer] bulk
> request:org.elasticsearch.ElasticSearchTimeoutException: Timeout waiting for
> task.
How many documents (and of what size) are you bulk indexing in a single
request?
> It is happening now and this time the error is only from one of my indices.
> (I bulk requests by index. I have 70+ indices.)
70 indices running on how many nodes?
My guess would be:
1. passing too much data at once to bulk
2. running too many indices on too few nodes with not enough resources
clint
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-in-bulk-response/9282/4 "2012-10-11T14:58:07Z")
Also, it seems like the timeout is not coming from elasticsearch itself, but from the client library you are using? If its the Java client, do you execute the bulk with a timeout?
On Oct 11, 2012, at 12:46 AM, Clinton Gormley [clint@traveljury.com](mailto:clint@traveljury.com) wrote:
> Hiya
>
> On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 14:46 -0700, arta wrote:
>
> > I found on the client side, I have following error:
> > ERROR;[search.analyzer.ElasticSearchIndexer:303][BatchingQueue-timer] bulk
> > request:org.elasticsearch.ElasticSearchTimeoutException: Timeout waiting for
> > task.
>
> How many documents (and of what size) are you bulk indexing in a single
> request?
>
> > It is happening now and this time the error is only from one of my indices.
> > (I bulk requests by index. I have 70+ indices.)
>
> 70 indices running on how many nodes?
>
> My guess would be:
>
> 1. passing too much data at once to bulk
> 2. running too many indices on too few nodes with not enough resources
>
> clint
>
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### Author:  [@arta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/arta)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-in-bulk-response/9282/5 "2012-10-11T17:24:15Z")
Thank you for the replies, Clinton, Kimchy.
Here are answers to your questions:
> How many documents (and of what size) are you bulk indexing in a single request?
I limit up to 100 indexings or deletions in a bulk.
> 70 indices running on how many nodes?
I have 13 nodes.
> Also, it seems like the timeout is not coming from elasticsearch itself, but from the client library you are using? If its the Java client, do you execute the bulk with a timeout?
The exception is caught by my code. It is thrown by the following code:
BulkRequestBuilder req = client.prepareBulk();
req.add(...); // up to 100 times
req.execute().actionGet(60000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-in-bulk-response/9282/6 "2017-07-06T03:09:16Z")