What does the bitbucket error message "Server Busy" mean?

[Veracode]

When I search in Bitbucket I get this message:

Server Busy

The server couldn't process your request, please try again later.

What is causing this, and how can we fix it?

[Deleted user]

We are also experiencing this issue.

[Kevin Tsai]

Thanks for responding. The reason is Elasticsearch is not running, either. 

We install the Atlassian Bitcucket on Linux machine, and we found that there are two scripts for starting the service, that is, startup.sh and start-bitbucket.sh. 

The script we use is startup.sh, and when dive into the code, there is nothting piece for starting Elasticsearch. 

Does I missing any part of it ? What is the best practice to starting Atlassian services ? 

Thanks.

[Thales Atlassian Admin Group]

Looks like the cause is Elasticsearch service is not running.

Atlassian released Elastic bundled with Bitbucket in 4.6. During upgrade, it seems that if you didn't check the "start up Bitbucket" on the last screen of the atlassian-bitbucket*.exe installer wizard, Elastic will not have been installed as a service properly.

Trying to confirm with Atlassian now that the remedial steps are:

1. stop Bitbucket
2. install the Elastic service and make sure it runs automatically
3. re-start Bitbucket.

[Thales Atlassian Admin Group]

We are noticing the same error.

[Kevin Tsai]

We came across this issue, too. 

[Subhi Andrews]

I am seeing same error with Bitbucket Server setup.

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[Nikita Merzlikin]

In new version bitbucket ( 5.2.2)
Start scritp is - start-bitbucket.sh
And when embeded elasticsearch not running you can't execute search on web-page. (Server Busy)

But  you can run one manualy by script - _start-search.sh
(in bin directory)
But, before set several enviroments

* (dir where your executed scripts like _start-search.sh)
* (dir where  installed your bitbucket version)
* (dir home, where stored all data, for example elastisearch settings too /home/bitbucket/data/shared/search/elasticsearch.yml)

export BIN_DIR=/opt/atlassian/bitbucket/5.2.2/bin

export INST_DIR=/opt/atlassian/bitbucket/5.2.2

export BITBUCKET_HOME=/home/bitbucket/data

and then execute 

/bin/bash /opt/atlassian/bitbucket/5.2.2/bin/_start-search.sh

#If you run your bitbucket server by root
#You can add in script _start-search.sh

su - bitbucket -c ""$ES_DIR/bin/elasticsearch" -d -p "$ES_PID" $ES_DEFAULT_ARGS"

#Instead

"$ES_DIR/bin/elasticsearch" -d -p "$ES_PID" $ES_DEFAULT_ARGS