Briefly, this error occurs when Elasticsearch fails to acknowledge the addition of a watcher template. This could be due to a variety of reasons such as network issues, incorrect template format, or insufficient permissions. To resolve this, you can try the following: 1) Check your network connection and ensure Elasticsearch is running properly. 2) Verify the format of your watcher template and ensure it adheres to the correct syntax. 3) Check your user permissions to ensure you have the necessary rights to add a watcher template.
In addition we recommend you run the Elasticsearch Template Optimizer to fix problems in your data modeling.
It will analyze your templates to detect issues and improve search performance, reduce indexing bottlenecks and optimize storage utilization. The Template Optimizer is free and requires no installation.
If you want to learn more about Elasticsearch templates, check out this guide.
Overview
A template in Elasticsearch falls into one of the two following categories and is indexed inside Elasticsearch using its dedicated endpoint:
- Index templates, which are a way to define a set of rules including index settings, mappings and an index pattern. The template is applied automatically whenever a new index is created with the matching pattern. Templates are also used to dynamically apply custom mapping for the fields which are not predefined inside existing mapping.
- Search templates, which help in defining templates for search queries using mustache scripting language. These templates act as a placeholder for variables defined inside the search queries.
Examples
Create a dynamic index template
PUT /_template/template_1?pretty
{
"index_patterns": [
"logs*",
"api*"
],
"settings": {
"number_of_shards": 2
},
"mappings": {
"dynamic_templates": [
{
"strings": {
"match_mapping_type": "string",
"mapping": {
"type": "keyword"
}
}
}
],
"properties": {
"host_name": {
"type": "keyword"
},
"created_at": {
"type": "date"
}
}
}
}Create a search template
POST /_scripts/search_template_1?pretty
{
"script": {
"lang": "mustache",
"source": {
"query": {
"match": {
"description": "{{query_string}}"
}
}
}
}
}Executing a search query using search template
GET /_search/template?pretty
{
"id": "search_template_1",
"params": {
"query_string": "hello world"
}
}The search request will be executed by default on all the indices available in the cluster and can be limited to particular indices using an index parameter.
Notes
- A dynamic index template is always useful when you do not know the field names in advance and want to control their mapping as per the business use case.
Log Context
Log “Error adding watcher template [{}]; request was not acknowledged” classname is WatcherIndexTemplateRegistry.java.
We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
new ActionListener() { @Override public void onResponse(AcknowledgedResponse response) { creationCheck.set(false); if (response.isAcknowledged() == false) { logger.error("Error adding watcher template [{}]; request was not acknowledged"; templateName); } } @Override public void onFailure(Exception e) {
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