In Magento 2, Sometimes an issue comes like the indexing process gets locked at the time of reindexing. When the process or the index type is locked then you cannot reindex that specific locked index type. The reindex will always skip that index type and you will get an error as below.

“Index is locked by another reindex process. Skipping”

So in this case, To Unlock Reindex Process you need reset index status and then try to run a new reindex process.

To reset index status, use below command

php bin/magento indexer:reset <index identifier>

Example:

php bin/magento indexer:reset cataloginventory_stock

If you want to reset all the indexes, use below command

php bin/magento indexer:reset

If you don’t know the index identifier, use below command

php bin/magento indexer:info

Output:

design_config_grid Design Config Grid
customer_grid Customer Grid
catalog_category_product Category Products
catalog_product_category Product Categories
catalogrule_rule Catalog Rule Product
catalog_product_attribute Product EAV
cataloginventory_stock Stock
inventory Inventory
catalogrule_product Catalog Product Rule
catalog_product_price Product Price
scconnector_google_remove Google Product Removal Feed
scconnector_google_feed Google Product Feed
catalogsearch_fulltext Catalog Search

If you want to know the status of the all indexes, use below command

php bin/magento indexer:status

Thats it. Enjoy Magento 2!!

 

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