Cloud ID is not properly formatted

[stheobald]

  File "/.../elastic/chatbot-rag-app/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/elastic_transport/client_utils.py", line 125, in parse_cloud_id
    raise ValueError("Cloud ID is not properly formatted") from None
ValueError: Cloud ID is not properly formatted

Using the Cloud ID found on my https://cloud.elastic.co/deployments/ page.

It seems that the client_utils.py may be expecting to find a '$' separator in part of the decoded id string.

This prevents ingesting data while attempting to connect to a cloud Elasticsearch instance.

[miguelgrinberg]

@stheobald Just want to make sure you are using the Cloud ID and not the name of your deployment. Your Cloud ID is formed with the name of your deployment, followed by a colon, then followed by a long base64 encoded payload.

See this page for detailed instructions on where to find your cloud id.

[stheobald]

@miguelgrinberg Correct - as uplifted from the 'Cloud Id' (under the red square) by hitting the 'Copy' button.

[miguelgrinberg]

Then you must have made a mistake when you copy/pasted it, because the second part of the cloud id (after the colon) must have two $ after it is base64 decoded. Try this in a python prompt:

>>> import base64
>>> cloud_id = "<paste your cloud id here>"
>>> name, payload = cloud_id.split(':')
>>> payload = base64.b64decode(payload)
>>> payload.split(b'$')
[b'us-east-2.aws.elastic-cloud.com:443', b'...', b'...']

The payload portion of the cloud id should decode to 3 parts. The first is the domain of your deployment. The other two are UUIDs.