elasticsearch/docs/reference/ingest/processors/fail.asciidoc

[[fail-processor]]
=== Fail processor
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<titleabbrev>Fail</titleabbrev>
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Raises an exception. This is useful for when
you expect a pipeline to fail and want to relay a specific message
to the requester.

[[fail-options]]
.Fail Options
[options="header"]
|======
| Name       | Required  | Default  | Description
| `message`  | yes       | -        | The error message thrown by the processor. Supports <<template-snippets,template snippets>>.
include::common-options.asciidoc[]
|======

[source,js]
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{
  "fail": {
    "if" : "ctx.tags.contains('production') != true",
    "message": "The production tag is not present, found tags: {{{tags}}}"
  }
}
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// NOTCONSOLE