# What does PercolateIndexUnavailable mean?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-percolateindexunavailable-mean/3990>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 26, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-percolateindexunavailable-mean/3990 "2011-02-26T20:23:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![angelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f1d935/32.png) [@angelf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/angelf)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-percolateindexunavailable-mean/3990/1 "2011-02-26T20:23:52Z")

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Hi,

I am encountering this error when trying to percolate with an  
additional query. As in:

{"error":"RemoteTransportException[[ElectroCute][inet[/  
192.168.1.102:9301]][indices/percolate/shard]]; nested:  
PercolateIndexUnavailable[[\_percolator] percolator index not allocated  
on this node]; ","status":  
500}%

See [https://gist.github.com/845575](https://gist.github.com/845575)

What does it mean? Is it a configuration error?

This is in a new 0.15.0 installation with a single node. Happens also  
with a current snapshot.

Thanks

- angel

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 11:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-percolateindexunavailable-mean/3990/2 "2011-02-26T23:00:27Z")

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Right, thats a bug: [Percolate: Failure to percolate with specific query (when creating the \_percolate index before the actual index) · Issue #725 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub](https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/725). Will push a fix shortly to 0.15 and master. Thanks for catching this!  
On Saturday, February 26, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Angel Faus wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am encountering this error when trying to percolate with an  
> additional query. As in:
> 
> {"error":"RemoteTransportException[[ElectroCute][inet[/  
> 192.168.1.102:9301]][indices/percolate/shard]]; nested:  
> PercolateIndexUnavailable[[\_percolator] percolator index not allocated  
> on this node]; ","status":  
> 500}%
> 
> See [get a PercolateIndexUnavailable · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/845575)
> 
> What does it mean? Is it a configuration error?
> 
> This is in a new 0.15.0 installation with a single node. Happens also  
> with a current snapshot.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - angel

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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, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-percolateindexunavailable-mean/3990/3 "2017-07-06T04:11:19Z")

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