# Parent Circuit Breaking Exception

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-circuit-breaking-exception/350165>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 31, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-circuit-breaking-exception/350165 "2023-12-31T22:17:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Brad\_Baker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brad_baker/32/96041_2.png) [@Brad\_Baker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brad_Baker)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2023, 10:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-circuit-breaking-exception/350165/1 "2023-12-31T22:17:37Z")

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We setup some monitoring to watch for parent circuit breaker trips in Elasticsearch and its going off like crazy. What I am trying to figure out is how to determine what is causing it. From what I have read and understand typically these go off when there is a risk of low memory for the JVM however that could be because we've written poor queries or it could be because we've undersized our Elasticsearch instances in terms of memory. I am trying to figure out how to determine which is the case and exactly what errors are occurring.

I tried to look at the Elasticsearch logs but I am not seeing anything being logged (the exceptions we're getting are in monitoring - not logging). Is there some way to enable logging of these errors - ideally with the query that triggered the alert?

Thanks  
Brad

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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:** [January 1, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-circuit-breaking-exception/350165/2 "2024-01-01T13:17:15Z")

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What is the full output of the [cluster stats API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.11/cluster-stats.html)?

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**Author:** ![Brad\_Baker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brad_baker/32/96041_2.png) [@Brad\_Baker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brad_Baker)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-circuit-breaking-exception/350165/3 "2024-01-01T20:44:16Z")

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}

```

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**Author:** ![Brad\_Baker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brad_baker/32/96041_2.png) [@Brad\_Baker](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brad_Baker)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-circuit-breaking-exception/350165/4 "2024-01-02T22:01:10Z")

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@Christian_Dahlqvist any ideas based on the above? I’m hesitant to throw hardware (memory) at the problem if the issue is poorly written queries. On the other hand off the cluster is just under provisioned I don’t want to bug our devs.

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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 30, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parent-circuit-breaking-exception/350165/5 "2024-01-30T22:01:42Z")

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