# org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchStatusException: Unable to parse response body

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/org-elasticsearch-elasticsearchstatusexception-unable-to-parse-response-body/291075>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** language-clients\
**Created:** [December 6, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/org-elasticsearch-elasticsearchstatusexception-unable-to-parse-response-body/291075 "2021-12-06T18:07:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![ksmamta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@ksmamta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ksmamta)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/org-elasticsearch-elasticsearchstatusexception-unable-to-parse-response-body/291075/1 "2021-12-06T18:07:02Z")

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Hi,

Facing the below error quite frequently with Rest High level client.  
version of rest client and Elasticsearch jar is 7.3.2 and ES cluster version is 7.5.2.

Any clue to find the root cause? why this error comes?

org.Elasticsearch.ElasticsearchStatusException: Unable to parse response body  
at org.Elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.parseResponseException(RestHighLevelClient.java:1707)  
at org.Elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.internalPerformRequest(RestHighLevelClient.java:1467)  
at org.Elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.performRequest(RestHighLevelClient.java:1424)  
at org.Elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient.performRequestAndParseEntity(RestHighLevelClient.java:1394)

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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:** [January 3, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/org-elasticsearch-elasticsearchstatusexception-unable-to-parse-response-body/291075/2 "2022-01-03T18:07:31Z")

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