influxdata/influxdb · warning · Error

The operation was aborted

Error message

The operation was aborted: {0}

What it means

The `Error::Aborted` variant, wrapping a `ServerError<()>`. Raised when the operation was aborted, mirroring gRPC's ABORTED status — typically a concurrency conflict such as a transaction or optimistic-concurrency failure that should usually be retried.

Solutions

1. Retry the operation with exponential backoff and jitter — ABORTED is explicitly retryable.
2. Serialize conflicting operations (single writer, locking, or request sequencing).
3. Shrink the scope/duration of conflicting operations to reduce contention.
4. If persistent, investigate concurrent job schedulers or scripts touching the same resources.

Example fix

// before
let r = client.update_catalog(req).await?; // single attempt
// after
let r = retry(ExponentialBackoff::default(), || async {
    match client.update_catalog(req.clone()).await {
        Err(Error::Aborted(_)) => Err(Retry::Transient),
        other => Ok(other?),
    }
}).await?;

fn is_aborted(e: &Error) -> bool { matches!(e, Error::Aborted(_)) }

match result {
    Err(Error::Aborted(_)) if attempt < MAX_ATTEMPTS => { jitter_sleep(attempt).await; retry() }
    other => other,
}

When it happens

Trigger: Concurrent modifications of the same resource (e.g. catalog/metadata updates) causing the server to abort one operation; transaction conflicts on the server side during writes or catalog mutations.

Common situations: Multiple clients or workers updating the same table/catalog concurrently, retry storms amplifying contention, long transactions colliding with newer writes.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Invalid state transition" errors: "status must be X, actually Y", "already rejected/charging/uninstalled", "cannot ... while running" — what they mean when a library rejects your call — this error's family across 31 libraries.

Related errors

• {0}
• Client specified an invalid argument
• Deadline expired before operation could complete
• Operation was attempted past the valid range
• Some entity that we attempted to create already exists

AI-assisted analysis of influxdata/influxdb@06200ef96b (2026-09-19). Data as JSON: /api/errors/0ed035e138039d5a. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at core/influxdb_iox_client/src/client/error.rs:93

    #[error("Deadline expired before operation could complete: {0}")]
    DeadlineExceeded(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("{0}")]
    NotFound(Box<ServerError<NotFound>>),

    #[error("Some entity that we attempted to create already exists: {0}")]
    AlreadyExists(Box<ServerError<AlreadyExists>>),

    #[error("The caller does not have permission to execute the specified operation: {0}")]
    PermissionDenied(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Some resource has been exhausted: {0}")]
    ResourceExhausted(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("The system is not in a state required for the operation's execution: {0}")]
    FailedPrecondition(Box<ServerError<PreconditionViolation>>),

    #[error("The operation was aborted: {0}")]
    Aborted(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Operation was attempted past the valid range: {0}")]
    OutOfRange(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Operation is not implemented or supported: {0}")]
    Unimplemented(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Internal error: {0}")]
    Internal(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("The service is currently unavailable: {0}")]
    Unavailable(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("Unrecoverable data loss or corruption: {0}")]
    DataLoss(ServerError<()>),

    #[error("The request does not have valid authentication credentials: {0}")]

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