elasticsearch operation_error ai_generated true

ReindexFailedException: reindex operation failed

ID: elasticsearch/reindex-failure

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78%Fix Rate
82%Confidence
3Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
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Root Cause

Reindex operation failed or timed out.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 90% success Use wait_for_completion=false for async reindex
  2. 88% success Set requests_per_second to throttle and prevent cluster overload

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Increase reindex timeout to hours 72% fail

    Ties up cluster resources

  2. Delete source index and try again 88% fail

    Data loss if reindex target incomplete