# SearchPhaseExecutionException\[Failed to execute phase \[query\], all shards failed

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchphaseexecutionexception-failed-to-execute-phase-query-all-shards-failed/17706>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 24, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchphaseexecutionexception-failed-to-execute-phase-query-all-shards-failed/17706 "2014-05-24T13:54:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![11150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/779978/32.png) [@11150](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/11150)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchphaseexecutionexception-failed-to-execute-phase-query-all-shards-failed/17706/1 "2014-05-24T13:54:07Z")

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Hello! Something went wrong with the elastica

info:  
{  
status: 200  
name: Techno  
version: {  
number: 1.1.1  
build\_hash: f1585f096d3f3985e73456debdc1a0745f512bbc  
build\_timestamp: 2014-04-16T14:27:12Z  
build\_snapshot: false  
lucene\_version: 4.7  
}  
tagline: You Know, for Search  
}

all queries return the same result:

{  
"error": "SearchPhaseExecutionException[Failed to execute phase [query],  
all shards failed; shardFailures {[uBz-QZUiQiqjTx3af1eIIQ][similarsearch][4]:  
EsRejectedExecutionException[rejected execution (queue capacity 1000) on  
org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction$4@ffa9478]}{[uBz-QZUiQiqjTx3af1eIIQ][  
similarsearch][1]: EsRejectedExecutionException[rejected execution (queue  
capacity 1000) on  
org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction$4@e3e20d1]}{[uBz-QZUiQiqjTx3af1eIIQ][  
similarsearch][0]: EsRejectedExecutionException[rejected execution (queue  
capacity 1000) on  
org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction$2@7c81d948]}]"  
,  
"status": 503  
}

for example my query:

GET similarsearch/\_search  
{  
"size": 10,  
"query": {  
"match\_all": {}  
}  
}

log error:  
[2014-05-24 00:00:13,426][DEBUG][action.search.type] [Techno] [  
similarsearch][1], node[uBz-QZUiQiqjTx3af1eIIQ], [P], s[STARTED]: Failed to  
execute [org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchReq$  
org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsRejectedExecutionException:rejected execution  
(queue capacity 1000) on org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.  
TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction$4@$  
at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsAbortPolicy.  
rejectedExecution(EsAbortPolicy.java:62)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.reject(ThreadPoolExecutor  
.java:821)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.execute(  
ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1372)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.  
TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction.onFirstPhaseResult(  
TransportSearchTypeAction.java:293)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.  
TransportSearchTypeAction$BaseAsyncAction.start(TransportSearchTypeAction.  
java:190)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.  
TransportSearchQueryThenFetchAction.doExecute(  
TransportSearchQueryThenFetchAction.java:59)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.search.type.  
TransportSearchQueryThenFetchAction.doExecute(  
TransportSearchQueryThenFetchAction.java:49)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction.execute(  
TransportAction.java:63)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.search.TransportSearchAction.doExecute(  
TransportSearchAction.java:108)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.search.TransportSearchAction.doExecute(  
TransportSearchAction.java:43)  
at org.elasticsearch.action.support.TransportAction.execute(  
TransportAction.java:63)  
at org.elasticsearch.client.node.NodeClient.execute(NodeClient.java:  
92)  
at org.elasticsearch.client.support.AbstractClient.search(  
AbstractClient.java:212)  
at org.elasticsearch.rest.action.search.RestSearchAction.  
handleRequest(RestSearchAction.java:98)  
at org.elasticsearch.rest.RestController.executeHandler(  
RestController.java:159)  
at org.elasticsearch.rest.RestController.dispatchRequest(  
RestController.java:142)  
at org.elasticsearch.http.HttpServer.internalDispatchRequest(  
HttpServer.java:121)  
at org.elasticsearch.http.HttpServer$Dispatcher.dispatchRequest(  
HttpServer.java:83)  
at org.elasticsearch.http.netty.NettyHttpServerTransport.  
dispatchRequest(NettyHttpServerTransport.java:291)  
at org.elasticsearch.http.netty.HttpRequestHandler.messageReceived(  
HttpRequestHandler.java:43)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.  
SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.  
java:70)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.  
sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.  
DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(  
DefaultChannelPipeline.java:791)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.handler.codec.http.  
HttpChunkAggregator.messageReceived(HttpChunkAggregator.java:145)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.  
SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.  
java:70)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.  
sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.  
DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(  
DefaultChannelPipeline.java:791)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.Channels.  
fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:296)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.handler.codec.frame.FrameDecoder.  
unfoldAndFireMessageReceived(FrameDecoder.java:459)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.handler.codec.replay.  
ReplayingDecoder.callDecode(ReplayingDecoder.java:536)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.handler.codec.replay.  
ReplayingDecoder.messageReceived(ReplayingDecoder.java:435)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.  
SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.handleUpstream(SimpleChannelUpstreamHandler.  
java:70)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.  
sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.  
DefaultChannelPipeline$DefaultChannelHandlerContext.sendUpstream(  
DefaultChannelPipeline.java:791)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.OpenChannelsHandler.handleUpstream  
(OpenChannelsHandler.java:74)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.  
sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:564)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.  
sendUpstream(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:559)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.Channels.  
fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:268)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.Channels.  
fireMessageReceived(Channels.java:255)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.read(  
NioWorker.java:88)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.  
AbstractNioWorker.process(AbstractNioWorker.java:108)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.  
AbstractNioSelector.run(AbstractNioSelector.java:318)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.  
AbstractNioWorker.run(AbstractNioWorker.java:89)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioWorker.run(  
NioWorker.java:178)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.util.ThreadRenamingRunnable.run(  
ThreadRenamingRunnable.java:108)  
at org.elasticsearch.common.netty.util.internal.  
DeadLockProofWorker$1.run(DeadLockProofWorker.java:42)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(  
ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)  
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(  
ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)

have any idea what could be the problem?

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**Author:** ![11171](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/11171/32/1141_2.png) [@11171](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/11171)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchphaseexecutionexception-failed-to-execute-phase-query-all-shards-failed/17706/2 "2014-11-04T17:03:47Z")

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Hello, have fixed it? What was the problem?

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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, 12:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searchphaseexecutionexception-failed-to-execute-phase-query-all-shards-failed/17706/3 "2017-07-06T00:52:11Z")

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