diff --git a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/search/sort/FieldSortIT.java b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/search/sort/FieldSortIT.java
index 97da362eebe82..ad44f19a14079 100644
--- a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/search/sort/FieldSortIT.java
+++ b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/search/sort/FieldSortIT.java
@@ -2160,6 +2160,31 @@ public void testLongSortOptimizationCorrectResults() {
         );
     }
 
+    public void testSortMixedFieldTypesSeveralDocs() {
+        assertAcked(
+            prepareCreate("index_long").setMapping("foo", "type=long"),
+            prepareCreate("index_double").setMapping("foo", "type=double")
+        );
+
+        List<IndexRequestBuilder> builders = new ArrayList<>();
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+            builders.add(prepareIndex("index_long").setId(String.valueOf(i)).setSource("foo", i));
+            builders.add(prepareIndex("index_double").setId(String.valueOf(i)).setSource("foo", i));
+        }
+        indexRandom(true, false, builders);
+
+        String errMsg = "Can't sort on field [foo]; the field has incompatible sort types";
+
+        { // mixing long and double types is not allowed
+            SearchPhaseExecutionException exc = expectThrows(
+                SearchPhaseExecutionException.class,
+                prepareSearch("index_long", "index_double").addSort(new FieldSortBuilder("foo")).setSize(20)
+            );
+            assertThat(exc.getCause().toString(), containsString(errMsg));
+        }
+    }
+
     public void testSortMixedFieldTypes() throws IOException {
         assertAcked(
             prepareCreate("index_long").setMapping("foo", "type=long"),
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java
index a8f22eb1cc572..75a63acd3cfd1 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.java
@@ -462,6 +462,7 @@ protected void doRun(Map<SearchShardIterator, Integer> shardIndexMap) {
                 }
             }
         }
+        final AtomicBoolean phaseFailureEncountered = new AtomicBoolean(false);
         perNodeQueries.forEach((routing, request) -> {
             if (request.shards.size() == 1) {
                 executeAsSingleRequest(routing, request.shards.getFirst());
@@ -483,6 +484,7 @@ protected void doRun(Map<SearchShardIterator, Integer> shardIndexMap) {
             }
             searchTransportService.transportService()
                 .sendChildRequest(connection, NODE_SEARCH_ACTION_NAME, request, task, new TransportResponseHandler<NodeQueryResponse>() {
+
                     @Override
                     public NodeQueryResponse read(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
                         return new NodeQueryResponse(in);
@@ -533,7 +535,13 @@ public void handleException(TransportException e) {
                             if (results instanceof QueryPhaseResultConsumer queryPhaseResultConsumer) {
                                 queryPhaseResultConsumer.failure.compareAndSet(null, cause);
                             }
-                            onPhaseFailure(getName(), "", cause);
+                            if (phaseFailureEncountered.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+                                logger.debug("Raising phase failure for " + cause + " while executing search on node " + routing.nodeId());
+                                onPhaseFailure(getName(), "", cause);
+                            } else {
+                                // we already failed the phase, ignore any additional failures and just log them if debug enabled
+                                logger.debug("Ignoring additional phase failure for " + cause + " from search on node " + routing.nodeId());
+                            }
                         }
                     }
                 });
@@ -541,7 +549,7 @@ public void handleException(TransportException e) {
     }
 
     private void executeWithoutBatching(CanMatchPreFilterSearchPhase.SendingTarget targetNode, NodeQueryRequest request) {
-        for (ShardToQuery shard : request.shards) {
+        for (SearchQueryThenFetchAsyncAction.ShardToQuery shard : request.shards) {
             executeAsSingleRequest(targetNode, shard);
         }
     }