# Retrying individual bulk actions that failed or were rejected by the previous bulk request

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrying-individual-bulk-actions-that-failed-or-were-rejected-by-the-previous-bulk-request/138419>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 3, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrying-individual-bulk-actions-that-failed-or-were-rejected-by-the-previous-bulk-request/138419 "2018-07-03T15:47:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/retrying-individual-bulk-actions-that-failed-or-were-rejected-by-the-previous-bulk-request/138419/4 "2018-07-04T10:58:52Z")

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Hi @Bernt_Rostad ,  
Thanks for your reply , after i checked logs for logstash and elasticsearch the result is as

```auto
[2018-07-04T10:16:33,715][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ({"type"=>"cluster_block_exception", "reason"=>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/1
[2018-07-04T10:16:33,715][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ({"type"=>"cluster_block_exception", "reason"=>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/1
[2018-07-04T10:16:33,715][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ({"type"=>"cluster_block_exception", "reason"=>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/1
[2018-07-04T10:16:33,715][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ({"type"=>"cluster_block_exception", "reason"=>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/1
[2018-07-04T10:16:33,715][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ({"type"=>"cluster_block_exception", "reason"=>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/1
[2018-07-04T10:16:33,715][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ({"type"=>"cluster_block_exception", "reason"=>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/1
[2018-07-04T10:16:33,715][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ({"type"=>"cluster_block_exception", "reason"=>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/1
[2018-07-04T10:16:33,716][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ({"type"=>"cluster_block_exception", "reason"=>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/1
[2018-07-04T10:16:33,716][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] retrying failed action with response code: 403 ({"type"=>"cluster_block_exception", "reason"=>"blocked by: [FORBIDDEN/1
[2018-07-04T10:16:33,716][INFO][logstash.outputs.elasticsearch] Retrying individual bulk actions that failed or were rejected by the previous bulk request. {:count=>125}

```

and elasticsearch logs is

```auto
[2018-07-04T10:13:45,050][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.AllocationService] [JkvjWj8] Cluster health status changed from [RED] to [YELLOW] (reason: [shards started [[metricbeat-6.3.0-2018.06.28][0]] ...]).
[2018-07-04T10:14:04,213][WARN][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [JkvjWj8] high disk watermark [90%] exceeded on [JkvjWj8PQmGioaUsLTrYIw][JkvjWj8][/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0] free: 4.4gb[9.2%], shards will be relocated away from this node
[2018-07-04T10:14:04,214][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [JkvjWj8] rerouting shards: [high disk watermark exceeded on one or more nodes]
[2018-07-04T10:14:34,246][WARN][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [JkvjWj8] high disk watermark [90%] exceeded on [JkvjWj8PQmGioaUsLTrYIw][JkvjWj8][/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0] free: 4.4gb[9.2%], shards will be relocated away from this node
[2018-07-04T10:15:04,298][WARN][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [JkvjWj8] high disk watermark [90%] exceeded on [JkvjWj8PQmGioaUsLTrYIw][JkvjWj8][/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0] free: 4.4gb[9.2%], shards will be relocated away from this node
[2018-07-04T10:15:04,298][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [JkvjWj8] rerouting shards: [high disk watermark exceeded on one or more nodes]
[2018-07-04T10:15:34,327][WARN][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [JkvjWj8] high disk watermark [90%] exceeded on [JkvjWj8PQmGioaUsLTrYIw][JkvjWj8][/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0] free: 4.4gb[9.1%], shards will be relocated away from this node
[2018-07-04T10:16:04,355][WARN][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [JkvjWj8] high disk watermark [90%] exceeded on [JkvjWj8PQmGioaUsLTrYIw][JkvjWj8][/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0] free: 4.4gb[9.1%], shards will be relocated away from this node
[2018-07-04T10:16:04,355][INFO][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [JkvjWj8] rerouting shards: [high disk watermark exceeded on one or more nodes]
[2018-07-04T10:16:34,383][WARN][o.e.c.r.a.DiskThresholdMonitor] [JkvjWj8] high disk watermark [90%] exceeded on [JkvjWj8PQmGioaUsLTrYIw][JkvjWj8][/var/lib/elasticsearch/nodes/0] free: 4.4gb[9.1%], shards will be relocated away from this node

```

is this cause of hard disk ?

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