# Intermittently seeing UnableToForward anomaly

**URL:** https://forum.datomic.com/t/intermittently-seeing-unabletoforward-anomaly/2315
**Category:** Datomic Cloud
**Created:** [August 21, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/intermittently-seeing-unabletoforward-anomaly/2315 "2023-08-21T15:27:34Z")
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### Author: ![bringe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@bringe](https://forum.datomic.com/u/bringe)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/intermittently-seeing-unabletoforward-anomaly/2315/1 "2023-08-21T15:27:34Z")

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At my company we’ve been intermittently seeing anomalies with the message “UnableToForward” since around March of this year. There’s no apparent problem, but I’m wondering if we can get more info on what this might be from.

Here’s some of the anomaly content:

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{"Msg":"UnableToForward","DatomicCloudForwarderResponse":{"CognitectAnomaliesCategory":"CognitectAnomaliesUnavailable","CognitectAnomaliesMessage":null} ...}

```

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### Author: ![jaret](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.datomic.com/jaret/32/45_2.png) [@jaret](https://forum.datomic.com/u/jaret)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/intermittently-seeing-unabletoforward-anomaly/2315/2 "2023-08-23T12:04:49Z")

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> [@bringe](#):
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> `UnableToForward`

Hi @Bringe,

Can I see the whole message? Are you using Cloud?

My guess is that you are getting this error somewhere because you are querying against a `t` value that is not present in the database being queried. This can happen for a variety of reasons and is usually resolved by ensuring you sync and have the `t` before querying.

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### Author: ![bringe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@bringe](https://forum.datomic.com/u/bringe)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/intermittently-seeing-unabletoforward-anomaly/2315/3 "2023-08-23T16:08:18Z")

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Hi @jaret.

Yes we’re using Cloud. Thanks for the information. CC @daemianmack

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### Author: ![bringe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@bringe](https://forum.datomic.com/u/bringe)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.datomic.com/t/intermittently-seeing-unabletoforward-anomaly/2315/4 "2023-08-23T16:11:48Z")

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Here’s the whole message:

```plaintext
Field	Value
@ingestionTime	1692381020728
@log	754691425993:datomic-crescent
@logStream	crescent-crescent-compute-prod-i-0e33aadfb9368fd7b-2023-08-15-20-33-18-
@message	{"Msg":"UnableToForward","DatomicCloudForwarderResponse":{"CognitectAnomaliesCategory":"CognitectAnomaliesUnavailable","CognitectAnomaliesMessage":null},"DatomicCloudForwarderContext":{"ServerName":"10.213.18.40","ServerPort":8182},"Type":"Event","Tid":174,"Timestamp":1692381019735}
@timestamp	1692381019735
DatomicCloudForwarderContext.ServerName	10.213.18.40
DatomicCloudForwarderContext.ServerPort	8182
DatomicCloudForwarderResponse.CognitectAnomaliesCategory CognitectAnomaliesUnavailable
Msg	UnableToForward
Tid	174
Timestamp	1692381019735
Type	Event

```
