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What does the error "Bad gateway" mean on Kibana Dashboard?


I have a "Elastic-search + Kibana" instance which has a lot of data. I have another HAProxy instance which redirects connection to Kibana dashboard. I am having a issue where the Kibana Dashboard isn't able to search (*) , it takes too much time & eventually throws this -:

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I want to know why is this happening or what exactly "Bad Gateway" mean. Moreover what to can be done to solve this.


Solution

  • Found the solution , it was the issue of Elastic_search tuning. I had to allocate half of the memory to ES_HEAP_SIZE & did some tweaks on elasticsearch.yml which doesn't allow JVM to swap memory.