Errors

Elasticsearch.Net will not throw if it gets an HTTP response other than 200 from Elasticsearch, unless ThrowOnElasticsearchServerExceptions is set. The response object’s Success property will be false and .Error will contain information on the failed response.

You can throw custom exceptions if you need too by specifying a custom connectionhandler

var settings = new ConnectionConfiguration()
    .SetConnectionStatusHandler(r=> {
        if (r.HttpStatusCode == 403)
           throw new MyApplicationNotLoggedInException();
        });

If a request has been retried the maximum amount of times a MaxRetryException is thrown. Note that requests are only retried when Elasticsearch responds with a 503 or an unspecified connection exception (i.e timeout) has occured on a node.

MaxRetryException will hold the original exception as .InnerException.