Briefly, this error occurs when an Elasticsearch operation is prematurely terminated or interrupted. This could be due to a variety of reasons such as insufficient resources, network issues, or a forced shutdown. To resolve this issue, you can try increasing system resources, checking network connectivity, or ensuring that operations are not forcibly terminated. Additionally, check your Elasticsearch logs for more detailed information about the cause of the abort.
This guide will help you check for common problems that cause the log ” Aborted ” to appear. To understand the issues related to this log, read the explanation below about the following Elasticsearch concepts: blobstore, repositories.
Overview
An Elasticsearch snapshot provides a backup mechanism that takes the current state and data in the cluster and saves it to a repository (read snapshot for more information). The backup process requires a repository to be created first. The repository needs to be registered using the _snapshot endpoint, and multiple repositories can be created per cluster. The following repository types are supported:
Repository types
| Repository type | Configuration type |
|---|---|
| Shared file system | Type: “fs” |
| S3 | Type : “s3” |
| HDFS | Type :“hdfs” |
| Azure | Type: “azure” |
| Google Cloud Storage | Type : “gcs” |
Examples
To register an “fs” repository:
PUT _snapshot/my_repo_01
{
"type": "fs",
"settings": {
"location": "/mnt/my_repo_dir"
}
}Notes and good things to know
- S3, HDFS, Azure and Google Cloud require a relevant plugin to be installed before it can be used for a snapshot.
- The setting, path.repo: /mnt/my_repo_dir needs to be added to elasticsearch.yml on all the nodes if you are planning to use the repo type of file system. Otherwise, it will fail.
- When using remote repositories, the network bandwidth and repository storage throughput should be high enough to complete the snapshot operations normally, otherwise you will end up with partial snapshots.
Log Context
Log “Aborted” class name is BlobStoreRepository.java. We extracted the following from Elasticsearch source code for those seeking an in-depth context :
store.decRef();
}
for (String fileName : fileNames) {
if (snapshotStatus.isAborted()) {
logger.debug("[{}] [{}] Aborted on the file [{}]; exiting"; shardId; snapshotId; fileName);
throw new IndexShardSnapshotFailedException(shardId; "Aborted");
} logger.trace("[{}] [{}] Processing [{}]"; shardId; snapshotId; fileName);
final StoreFileMetaData md = metadataFromStore.get(fileName);
BlobStoreIndexShardSnapshot.FileInfo existingFileInfo = null;
