# Temporary bulk send failure
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/temporary-bulk-send-failure/54607
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 4, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/temporary-bulk-send-failure/54607 "2016-07-04T04:39:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Kennedy\_Kan1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kennedy_Kan1)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/temporary-bulk-send-failure/54607/1 "2016-07-04T04:39:42Z")
I have installed ES in indexing data from different nodes running topbeat and packetbeat and it was running fine before. However, when I look at the node which sends data to the ES server, it shows Temporary bulk send failure. I have used curator to delete some past indexes, but this problems still occurs. I would like to know what is the causes and solutions for it??
Great thanks for any help.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/temporary-bulk-send-failure/54607/2 "2016-07-04T04:43:50Z")
> [@Kennedy\_Kan1](#):
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> I look at the node which sends data to the ES server, it shows Temporary bulk send failure
Can you share the error?
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### Author:  [@Kennedy\_Kan1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kennedy_Kan1)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/temporary-bulk-send-failure/54607/3 "2016-07-04T04:52:41Z")
Sure, here are the errors.
> 2016/07/04 04:22:37.394730 client.go:190: INFO Bulk item insert failed (i=49, status=503): {"type":"unavailable\_shards\_exception","reason":"[topbeat-2016.07.03][0] primary shard is not active Timeout: [1m], request: [BulkShardRequest to [topbeat-2016.07.03] containing [8] requests]"}
> 2016/07/04 04:22:37.394831 single.go:76: INFO Error publishing events (retrying): temporary bulk send failure
> 2016/07/04 04:22:37.394908 single.go:152: INFO send fail
> 2016/07/04 04:22:37.394996 single.go:159: INFO backoff retry: 1s
> 2016/07/04 04:24:08.398676 client.go:112: ERR Failed to perform any bulk index operations: Post [http://172.16.1.209:9200/\_bulk:](http://172.16.1.209:9200/_bulk:) net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
> 2016/07/04 04:24:08.398896 single.go:76: INFO Error publishing events (retrying): Post [http://172.16.1.209:9200/\_bulk:](http://172.16.1.209:9200/_bulk:) net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)
> 2016/07/04 04:24:08.398990 single.go:152: INFO send fail
> 2016/07/04 04:24:08.399149 single.go:159: INFO backoff retry: 2s
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/temporary-bulk-send-failure/54607/4 "2017-07-05T22:38:42Z")