ElasticSearch health check failed every time when spring boot start up

Question

I am working with Elastic Search 5.5.0 on Spring boot 1.5.8.RELEASE using the Java Transport Client library.

The Elastic Search was deployed with docker in a contai

Answer 1

You can disable the Elasticsearch health check by adding the following line to your application.xml file

management.health.elasticsearch.enabled: false

Answer 2

disable the health indicator auto configuration

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = {        
    ElasticSearchRestHealthIndicatorAutoConfiguration.class
})
public class YourApplication

Answer 3

When I went deep into the same issue happening in my sprint boot app too, I found that elasticsearch health check use org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient but I was using org.elasticsearch.client.RestHighLevelClient and had created Bean for the same.

In case you want to keep the recurring elasticsearch's healthcheck,
Create a Bean for RestClient using the right host and port.

Or add following entry in app config yml/xml to remove healthcheck itself:

management.health.elasticsearch.enabled: false