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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 ” pause follow request failed to be acknowledged ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: request, plugin.
Log Context
Log “pause follow request failed to be acknowledged”classname is PauseFollowerIndexStep.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
PauseFollowAction.Request request = new PauseFollowAction.Request(followerIndex);
request.masterNodeTimeout(TimeValue.MAX_VALUE);
getClient().execute(PauseFollowAction.INSTANCE; request; ActionListener.wrap(r -> {
if (r.isAcknowledged() == false) {
throw new ElasticsearchException("pause follow request failed to be acknowledged");
}
listener.onResponse(null);
}; listener::onFailure));
}
}
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