diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d4eec066..9e4fa24b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # SAS Viya Monitoring for Kubernetes
 ## Unreleased
 * **Logging**
+  * [FIX] Corrected handling of unavailable API endpoint in deploy_opensearch_content.sh
   * [FIX] Log messages from Prometheus Operator pod redirected to OpenSearch viya_ops-* (rather than viya_logs-*) index
   * [UPGRADE] OpenSearch and OpenSearch Dashboards upgraded from 2.19.2 to 2.19.3
   * [UPGRADE] OpenSearch Helm chart upgraded from 2.34.0 to 2.35.0.
diff --git a/logging/bin/deploy_opensearch_content.sh b/logging/bin/deploy_opensearch_content.sh
index 0302e6dc..9a656cc1 100755
--- a/logging/bin/deploy_opensearch_content.sh
+++ b/logging/bin/deploy_opensearch_content.sh
@@ -23,10 +23,9 @@ fi
 log_info "Loading Content into OpenSearch"
 
 # temp file used to capture command output
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 tmpfile=$TMP_DIR/output.txt
 
-set -e
-
 # check for pre-reqs
 
 # Confirm namespace exists
@@ -169,6 +168,8 @@ function add_ism_template {
     fi
 }
 
+set -e
+
 LOG_RETENTION_PERIOD="${LOG_RETENTION_PERIOD:-3}"
 set_retention_period viya_logs_idxmgmt_policy LOG_RETENTION_PERIOD
 add_ism_template "viya_logs_idxmgmt_policy" "viya_logs-*" 100