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Take a self-guided product tour to see for yourself (no registration required).This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” failed to parse request ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: request, rest.
Log Context
Log “failed to parse request”classname is RestRequestFilter.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
);
try {
XContentBuilder xContentBuilder = XContentBuilder.builder(result.v1().xContent()).map(transformedSource);
filteredBytes = BytesReference.bytes(xContentBuilder);
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new ElasticsearchException("failed to parse request"; e);
}
}
return filteredBytes;
}
};
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