diff --git a/ocs_ci/ocs/elasticsearch.py b/ocs_ci/ocs/elasticsearch.py
index 860f5a8fff1..311d0a69f63 100644
--- a/ocs_ci/ocs/elasticsearch.py
+++ b/ocs_ci/ocs/elasticsearch.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import time
 import json
 
-from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch, exceptions as esexp
+from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch, helpers, exceptions as esexp
 
 from ocs_ci.ocs import constants
 from ocs_ci.ocs.ocp import OCP
@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ def elasticsearch_load(connection, target_path):
     Load all data from target_path/results into an elasticsearch (es) server.
 
     Args:
-        connection (dict): a dictionary with the main elasticsearch server information
-          {host: the server ip address, port: the port to connect}
+        connection (obj): an elasticsearch connection object
         target_path (str): the path where data was dumped into
 
     Returns:
@@ -37,6 +36,38 @@ def elasticsearch_load(connection, target_path):
 
     """
 
+    # define a function that will load a text file
+    def get_data_from_text_file(json_file):
+        """
+        This function will return a list of docs stored in a text file
+
+        Args:
+            json_file (str): the file name to look for docs in
+
+        Returns:
+             list : list of documents as json dicts
+
+        """
+
+        docs = [
+            l.strip() for l in open(str(json_file), encoding="utf8", errors="ignore")
+        ]
+        log.info(f"String docs length: {len(docs)}")
+        doc_list = []
+
+        for num, doc in enumerate(docs):
+            try:
+                dict_doc = json.loads(doc)
+                doc_list += [dict_doc]
+            except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError as err:
+                # print the errors
+                log.error(
+                    f"ERROR for num: {num} -- JSONDecodeError: {err} for doc: {doc}"
+                )
+
+        log.info(f"Dict docs length: {len(doc_list)}")
+        return doc_list
+
     all_files = run_command(f"ls {target_path}/results/", out_format="list")
     if "Error in command" in all_files:
         log.error("There is No data to load into ES server")
@@ -51,17 +82,16 @@ def elasticsearch_load(connection, target_path):
                 file_name = f"{target_path}/results/{ind}"
                 ind_name = ind.split(".")[0]
                 log.info(f"Loading the {ind} data into the ES server")
-                with open(file_name) as json_file:
-                    while True:
-                        line = json_file.readline()
-                        if line:
-                            full_data = json.loads(line)
-                            log.debug(f"Loading {full_data} into the ES")
-                            connection.index(
-                                index=ind_name, doc_type="_doc", body=full_data
-                            )
-                        else:
-                            break
+                docs_list = get_data_from_text_file(file_name)
+
+                try:
+                    log.info(
+                        "Attempting to index the list of docs using helpers.bulk()"
+                    )
+                    resp = helpers.bulk(connection, docs_list, index=ind_name)
+                    log.info(f"helpers.bulk() RESPONSE: {resp}")
+                except Exception as err:
+                    log.error(f"Elasticsearch helpers.bulk() ERROR:{err}")
         return True