# Unable to create client connection to Elasticsearch from Curator

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-client-connection-to-elasticsearch-from-curator/150860>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 3, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-client-connection-to-elasticsearch-from-curator/150860 "2018-10-03T10:44:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pradnya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Pradnya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pradnya)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-client-connection-to-elasticsearch-from-curator/150860/1 "2018-10-03T10:44:36Z")

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Hii,  
while running command: " /usr/bin/curator --config /app/software/curator/curator-config.yml /app/software/curator/curator-action.yml "

getting error:  
2018-10-03 16:11:25,641 INFO Preparing Action ID: 1, "delete\_indices"  
2018-10-03 16:11:25,645 WARNING GET [http://10.26.24.19:9200/http://10.26.24.19:9200/metricbeat-\*/](http://10.26.24.19:9200/http://10.26.24.19:9200/metricbeat-*/) [status:400 request:0.001s]  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File "/usr/bin/curator", line 11, in   
sys.exit(cli())  
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in **call**  
return self.main(\*args, \*\*kwargs)  
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main  
rv = self.invoke(ctx)  
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke  
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, \*\*ctx.params)  
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke  
return callback(\*args, \*\*kwargs)  
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/curator/cli.py", line 213, in cli  
run(config, action\_file, dry\_run)  
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/curator/cli.py", line 160, in run  
client = get\_client(\*\*client\_args)  
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/curator/utils.py", line 907, in get\_client  
'Error: {0}'.format(e)  
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/elasticsearch/exceptions.py", line 58, in **str**  
cause = ', %r' % self.info['error']['root\_cause'][0]['reason']  
TypeError: string indices must be integers

Curator Config.yml file is as below:  
client:  
hosts:  
- 10.26.24.19:9200  
url\_prefix: [http://10.26.24.19:9200/metricbeat-\*](http://10.26.24.19:9200/metricbeat-*)  
use\_ssl: False  
#certificate:  
#client\_cert:  
#client\_key:  
ssl\_no\_validate: True

# http\_auth:

timeout: 30  
master\_only: False

logging:  
loglevel: INFO  
logfile:  
logformat: default  
blacklist: ['urllib3']

Kindly help.

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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:** [October 31, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-create-client-connection-to-elasticsearch-from-curator/150860/2 "2018-10-31T10:44:50Z")

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