# SearchParseException: Failed to parse source \[\_na\_\]

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchparseexception-failed-to-parse-source--na-/19722>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 10, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchparseexception-failed-to-parse-source--na-/19722 "2014-09-10T19:54:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Koblas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@David\_Koblas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Koblas)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2014, 7:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchparseexception-failed-to-parse-source--na-/19722/1 "2014-09-10T19:54:18Z")

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We're getting the following exception in our logs, which is taking down the  
whole cluster. We don't think we've changed any code recently on our side,  
but the error has recently started showing up.

We're still investigating if this is a query we're building, or something  
else. But, it doesn't correlate with anything on our side yet.

This is with version: 1.3.2

_Help??_

[2014-09-10 18:24:04,387][DEBUG][action.search.type] [i-3276901e]  
[intelligence\_v1][118], node[NNDfAL3sS8GoLynod1mU8w], [P], s[STARTED]:  
Failed to execute [org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchRequest@4f9438d5]  
lastShard [true]  
org.elasticsearch.transport.RemoteTransportException:  
[i-cd99ee9e][inet[/10.0.2.33:9300]][search/phase/query]  
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.search.SearchParseException:  
[intelligence\_v1][118]: from[-1],size[-1]: Parse Failure [Failed to parse  
source [_na_]]  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.parseSource(SearchService.java:664)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.createContext(SearchService.java:515)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.createAndPutContext(SearchService.java:487)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.executeQueryPhase(SearchService.java:256)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.action.SearchServiceTransportAction$SearchQueryTransportHandler.messageReceived(SearchServiceTransportAction.java:688)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.action.SearchServiceTransportAction$SearchQueryTransportHandler.messageReceived(SearchServiceTransportAction.java:677)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.transport.netty.MessageChannelHandler$RequestHandler.run(MessageChannelHandler.java:275)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)  
at  
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)  
Caused by: org.elasticsearch.ElasticsearchParseException: Failed to derive  
xcontent from  
org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.ChannelBufferBytesReference@7f9c402  
at  
org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory.xContent(XContentFactory.java:259)  
at  
org.elasticsearch.search.SearchService.parseSource(SearchService.java:634)  
... 9 more  
[2014-09-10 18:24:04,385][DEBUG][action.search.type] [i-3276901e]  
[intelligence\_v1][54], node[NNDfAL3sS8GoLynod1mU8w], [R], s[STARTED]:  
Failed to execute [org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchRequest@4f9438d5]  
lastShard [true]

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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, 1:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchparseexception-failed-to-parse-source--na-/19722/2 "2017-07-06T01:03:14Z")

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