ES 2.3 A connection could not be made to the Elasticsearch server.

[Maa]

Hi,

I am having issues with enhanced search, error is;
A connection could not be made to the Elasticsearch server.

Could someone please help?

 

[philmckrackon]

Un check use https.

 

[ES Dev Team]

Classic problem. Your elasticsearch server crashed due to load or being out of memory.
The most likely reason is AI scrapers.
I restart the elasticsearch process nightly because it's so unstable.. opensearch uses less memory and is a lot more stable.. it should also be protocol compatible.

Are you running self-hosted?

 

[Maa]

Self hosted, and tried unchecking use https, same issue

 

[philmckrackon]

Were able to connect before. Is this a new problem. What version of ES are you running and also what version of XF?

 

[Maa]

Enhanced Search - 2.3.11
XF - v2.3.11

I had to move from centos to latest OS Ubuntu

 

[philmckrackon]

Do you have bash? Port 9200 is what is works on.
curl -X

 

[ES Dev Team]

Since you have a server, i'd recommend installing netdata.
There is a ubuntu package for it.

Let me know if you could use help with the nginx or apache web service forwarding part.

At the time of the crash, you probably see one of the following:

• elasticsearch dies
• big memory fluctiation
• too many simultaneous TCP/IP connections

It could be a number of problems so it's helpful to have netdata to diagnose them as you won't find much useful evidence in logs when elasticsearch goes belly up.

 

[philmckrackon]

Something is not right or correct. There are so many ways to push / use ES. The latest supported ES is (I think) 8.x. ES is actually up to 9.
The latest ES is 9. Not really supported but works. My site a bit small but cranks.