What is a good fix for this issue "IndexWriter is closed" ?

[Rene Asanga]

I am seeing this error message when I restart Jira. I am back to Jira after many years of not working with this tool and will appreciate some support on this. 

Here is what I see in the logs. 

2025-07-07 04:40:55,500+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,500+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079917'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,500+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,500+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079893'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,500+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,501+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079916'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,501+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,501+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-16 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079724'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,501+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-16 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,502+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079921'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,502+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,502+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-16 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079773'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,502+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-16 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,502+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079892'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,502+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,502+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-16 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079766'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,502+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-16 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,503+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079924'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,503+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,503+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079928'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,503+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,503+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079891'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,503+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,503+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079900'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,503+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,504+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079912'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,504+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,504+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079926'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,504+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,505+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079929'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,505+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,506+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079894'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,506+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,506+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-16 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079774'
2025-07-07 04:40:55,506+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-16 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] this IndexWriter is closed
2025-07-07 04:40:55,506+0000 IssueIndexer:thread-5 WARN [c.a.jira.index.AccumulatingResultBuilder] Indexing failed for Issue - '1079895'

[Dan Breyen]

Hi @Rene Asanga welcome to the community.  I did a quick search on the internet and found some issues having to do with the server being out of space or very large attachments that can cause similar issues.

I also did a search on Atlassian's Jira Site and found several issues like JRASERVER-61099 that could corrupt the search indexes that can cause the error.  

It looks like there has been a fix for this.  Have you tried updating your Jira to the latest version?

Hope that helps.