painless-debugging.md

navigation_title	Debugging Painless scripts
applies_to	stack serverless ga ga
products	id elasticsearch

Debug Painless scripts in {{es}}

Use the topics in this section to debug common errors in your Painless scripts.

• Array/list manipulation errors
• Date math errors
• Field not found (mapping conflicts)
• Ingest pipeline failures
• Null pointer exceptions
• Regex pattern matching failures
• Runtime field exceptions
• Sandbox limitations
• Script score calculation errors
• Subfield access
• Type casting issues

Additional resources

• A Brief Painless walkthrough