# Troubleshooting Azure snapshot plugin issue

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubleshooting-azure-snapshot-plugin-issue/29448>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 16, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubleshooting-azure-snapshot-plugin-issue/29448 "2015-09-16T23:34:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rick.rankin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@rick.rankin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rick.rankin)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubleshooting-azure-snapshot-plugin-issue/29448/1 "2015-09-16T23:34:27Z")

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I have a 3 node Elasticsearch 1.7.1 cluster running on Azure VMs

I installed the azure plugin using the following:

sudo /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-azure/2.8.1

elasticsearch.yml change:

cloud:  
azure:  
storage:  
account: datastorageaccount  
key: long\_primary\_access\_key==

```
    management:
         subscription.id: dddd-some-subscription-id
         cloud.service.name: elastservicename

```

I stopped and started each node one at a time, then used Sense to try to create a snapshot:

PUT \_snapshot/es\_snapshot\_2015-09-16\_b  
{  
"type": "azure"  
}

returns the following:

{  
"acknowledged": true  
}

but then nothing happens and there are no log entires in the elasticsearch log

get \_snapshot returns:

{  
"es\_snapshot\_2015-09-16": {  
"type": "azure",  
"settings": {}  
},  
"es\_snapshot\_2015-09-16\_b": {  
"type": "azure",  
"settings": {}  
}  
}

get \_snapshot/\_status returns:

{  
"snapshots": []  
}

How can I go about troubleshooting this? Is there any place where I can get more information about what is happening?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubleshooting-azure-snapshot-plugin-issue/29448/2 "2015-09-17T01:55:10Z")

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You created a repository, not a Snapshot.  
You need then to Snapshot your indices.

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**Author:** ![rick.rankin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@rick.rankin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rick.rankin)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubleshooting-azure-snapshot-plugin-issue/29448/3 "2015-09-17T16:17:40Z")

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Ah, thank you very much.

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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 5, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/troubleshooting-azure-snapshot-plugin-issue/29448/4 "2017-07-05T23:49:42Z")

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