Percolator fields are not searchable directly; use a percolate query instead – How to solve this Elasticsearch error

Opster Team

July-20, Version: 1.7-8.0

Before you begin reading this guide, we recommend you try running the Elasticsearch Error Check-Up which analyzes 2 JSON files to detect many configuration errors.

To easily locate the root cause and resolve this issue try AutoOps for Elasticsearch & OpenSearch. It diagnoses problems by analyzing hundreds of metrics collected by a lightweight agent and offers guidance for resolving them.

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 ” Percolator fields are not searchable directly; use a percolate query instead ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: percolate, percolator and query.

Log Context

Log “Percolator fields are not searchable directly; use a percolate query instead”classname  is PercolatorFieldMapper.java We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :

}
 } 
 @Override
 public Query termQuery(Object value; QueryShardContext context) {
 throw new QueryShardException(context; "Percolator fields are not searchable directly; use a percolate query instead");
 } 
 Query percolateQuery(String name; PercolateQuery.QueryStore queryStore; List documents;
 IndexSearcher searcher; boolean excludeNestedDocuments; Version indexVersion) throws IOException {
 IndexReader indexReader = searcher.getIndexReader();

 

Watch product tour

Try AutoOps to find & fix Elasticsearch problems

Analyze Your Cluster
Skip to content