No mapping found for field in order to sort on in ElasticSearch

Question

Elasticsearch throws a SearchParseException while parsing query if there are some documents found not containing field used in sort criteria.

Answer 1

I experienced the same problem (sorta; would get some errors, but some results), but in my case my search was being issued at the root (no index specified), and the errors I was getting were because the search/order was also looking to a Kibana index.

Stupid error, but maybe this'll help someone else who ends up here.