Hello, We have had ES running for few months now and noticed recently the E drive on Windows was running really low on space. After adding 100GB to the E drive, tried restarting the service and server multiple times but ES does not start. Below is the error message: e:\Elastic\Elasticsearch\bin>e…

I am also seeing this timeout problem. I have 2 different clusters that had crashed due to out of memory exception. Trying to restart either of them would cause this error. Cluster A didn't have any plugins and Cluster B has the searchguard plugin. It seems that Cluster A was able to start within th…

7000 indices? Unless that is a quite large cluster you should read this blog post about shards and sharding .

Hi, sorry, no solution from me. Just thought I'd add that I am experiencing the same issue. The cluster was likely in some form of distress as it filled up the drive (the install drive, not the data drive) with 35Gb of log data and the ElasticSearch service stopped. Since looking at a 35GB log file …

We know that 7000 is extremely unnecessary. It is an old test machine and our index cleanup had run awry and failed to delete indexes for quite a while. We don't expect much more than maybe 100. I will look into updating to latest 5.x, and see if this resolves the issue.

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