What happens when you do a reindex in Jira?

What happens when you do a reindex in Jira?

When JIRA applications perform a reindex, errors can happen throughout that process. If an error occurs, exceptions will typically be thrown for individual issues. This means the index can fail for a single issue; however, it does not fail for the entire instance because one issue is causing problems.

What does it mean when a migration has failed?

Continuing the blog post series, we arrived at troubleshooting failed migrations. A ‘failed migration’ is when the status of the move request shows as ‘failed’, and we have one or more failures logged in the move report. The move is stopped and needs the administrator’s attention to investigate the reason of failure.

What to do if migration request is not created?

In cases where the error message on the migration user is not so obvious and you still don’t have a move request created for it, you can check Get-MigrationUserStatistics with DiagnosticInfo verbose switch: Get-MigrationUserStatistics -DiagnosticInfo verbose |FL and see if any more details found.

What does it mean when a move request has failed?

A ‘failed migration’ is when the status of the move request shows as ‘failed’, and we have one or more failures logged in the move report. The move is stopped and needs the administrator’s attention to investigate the reason of failure.

What does it mean when index fails for one issue?

This means the index can fail for a single issue; however, it does not fail for the entire instance because one issue is causing problems. If the above exception and stack trace is displayed after indexing has finished, it means one or more of the issues failed during the process; however, the entire process did not.

What causes indexing failure in Jira Server Atlassian?

Tracking back through the logs prior to the stack trace being thrown will often show exceptions being thrown as issues are indexed. Some of the known causes for indexing failure are below: There is an invalid issuelinktype in the database. Entries in the changegroup table in the database with null values in the created column.