Indexing fails with error

Jason Ritz
Jason Ritz
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Author: Jason Ritz

Date:  December 6th, 2023

Audience: Everyone

Environmental details: Self-hosted

 

Summary: 

After running for some time, indexing fails. We can see the following message in the logs:

There was an error while indexing a chunk. It's been bisected down to a single problematic object:

Solution:

Add the following line to the advanced startup settings in the admin console and restart/redeploy the application.

reindexBrokenItemThreshold=100000000

Cause:

This error occurs when the number of items Elasticsearch can't parse exceeds the threshold of broken items. 

Elasticsearch cannot parse items that cannot be searched, such as images and zip file attachments. 

 

 

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