# Problems with \_bulk indexing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with--bulk-indexing/4857>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 14, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with--bulk-indexing/4857 "2011-07-14T12:54:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![michaelvalasanyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@michaelvalasanyan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/michaelvalasanyan)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with--bulk-indexing/4857/1 "2011-07-14T12:54:01Z")

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Hi All,

Here is a sample \_bulk request which is failing:  
curl -X PUT "[http://localhost:9200/\_bulk](http://localhost:9200/_bulk)" -d '{ "index" : { "\_index" : "profusion\_db", "\_type" : "service\_index", "\_id" : "1" } }  
{ "field1" : "value1" }  
'

{"error":"[\_bulk] Invalid index name [_bulk], must not start with '_'"}

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/problems-with--bulk-indexing/4857/2 "2017-07-06T04:00:39Z")

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