:wave: everyone! We are using CCR (elasticsearch v 6.8.x) for quite a time now to run in code where we automatically delete old indices. The documentation states: The follower index must be paused and closed before invoking the unfollow API. (see: unfollow API documentation ) So, our worker kicks…

"no shard follow tasks" when pausing following on follower index

nhat (Nhat Nguyen) November 8, 2019, 5:47pm 3

I opened https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/48915 to return a more appropriate error message.

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