diff --git a/indexers/elastic.go b/indexers/elastic.go
index 724d861..52090a7 100644
--- a/indexers/elastic.go
+++ b/indexers/elastic.go
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v7/esutil"
 )
 
-const elastic = "elastic"
-
 // Elastic ElasticSearch instance
 type Elastic struct {
 	index string
@@ -44,7 +42,7 @@ var ESClient *elasticsearch.Client
 
 // Init function
 func init() {
-	indexerMap[elastic] = &Elastic{}
+	indexerMap[ElasticIndexer] = &Elastic{}
 }
 
 // Returns new indexer for elastic search
@@ -140,7 +138,7 @@ func (esIndexer *Elastic) Index(documents []interface{}, opts IndexingOpts) (str
 	for stat, val := range indexerStats {
 		statString += fmt.Sprintf(" %s=%d", stat, val)
 	}
-	if(redundantSkipped > 0){
+	if redundantSkipped > 0 {
 		statString += fmt.Sprintf(" redundantskipped=%d", redundantSkipped)
 	}
 	return fmt.Sprintf("Indexing finished in %v:%v", dur.Truncate(time.Millisecond), statString), nil
diff --git a/indexers/local.go b/indexers/local.go
index 542838e..dcabe85 100644
--- a/indexers/local.go
+++ b/indexers/local.go
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ import (
 	"path"
 )
 
-const local = "local"
-
 // Local indexer instance
 type Local struct {
 	metricsDirectory string
@@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ type Local struct {
 
 // Init function
 func init() {
-	indexerMap[local] = &Local{}
+	indexerMap[LocalIndexer] = &Local{}
 }
 
 // Prepares local indexing directory
@@ -45,6 +43,9 @@ func (l *Local) new(indexerConfig IndexerConfig) error {
 
 // Index uses generates a local file with the given name and metrics
 func (l *Local) Index(documents []interface{}, opts IndexingOpts) (string, error) {
+	if len(documents) == 0 {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("Empty document list in %v", opts.MetricName)
+	}
 	if opts.MetricName == "" {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("MetricName shouldn't be empty")
 	}
diff --git a/indexers/local_test.go b/indexers/local_test.go
index 762249e..9bce27e 100644
--- a/indexers/local_test.go
+++ b/indexers/local_test.go
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ package indexers
 
 import (
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"os"
+	"path"
 
 	. "github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
 	. "github.com/onsi/gomega"
@@ -19,9 +21,8 @@ var _ = Describe("Tests for local.go", func() {
 		var localIndexer Local
 		BeforeEach(func() {
 			testcase = newtestcase{
-				indexerconfig: IndexerConfig{Type: "elastic",
+				indexerconfig: IndexerConfig{Type: "local",
 					Servers:            []string{""},
-					Index:              "go-commons-test",
 					InsecureSkipVerify: true,
 					MetricsDirectory:   "",
 				},
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ var _ = Describe("Tests for local.go", func() {
 	})
 
 	Context("Default behaviour of local.go, Index()", func() {
-		var testcase indexMethodTestcase
+		var testcase, emtpyTestCase indexMethodTestcase
 		var indexer Local
 		indexer.metricsDirectory = "placeholder"
 		BeforeEach(func() {
@@ -71,6 +72,12 @@ var _ = Describe("Tests for local.go", func() {
 					MetricName: "placeholder",
 				},
 			}
+			emtpyTestCase = indexMethodTestcase{
+				documents: []interface{}{},
+				opts: IndexingOpts{
+					MetricName: "empty",
+				},
+			}
 		})
 		AfterEach(func() {
 			err := os.RemoveAll(indexer.metricsDirectory)
@@ -79,13 +86,10 @@ var _ = Describe("Tests for local.go", func() {
 			}
 		})
 
-		It("No err is returned", func() {
+		It("Metric file is created", func() {
 			_, err := indexer.Index(testcase.documents, testcase.opts)
 			Expect(err).To(BeNil())
-		})
-
-		It("No err is returned", func() {
-			_, err := indexer.Index(testcase.documents, testcase.opts)
+			_, err = os.Stat(path.Join(indexer.metricsDirectory, testcase.opts.MetricName+".json"))
 			Expect(err).To(BeNil())
 		})
 
@@ -100,5 +104,9 @@ var _ = Describe("Tests for local.go", func() {
 			_, err := indexer.Index(testcase.documents, testcase.opts)
 			Expect(err).To(BeEquivalentTo(errors.New("JSON encoding error: json: unsupported type: chan string")))
 		})
+		It("returns err no empty document list", func() {
+			_, err := indexer.Index(emtpyTestCase.documents, emtpyTestCase.opts)
+			Expect(err).To(BeEquivalentTo(fmt.Errorf("Empty document list in %v", emtpyTestCase.opts.MetricName)))
+		})
 	})
 })
diff --git a/indexers/opensearch.go b/indexers/opensearch.go
index 40e227a..35fde7b 100644
--- a/indexers/opensearch.go
+++ b/indexers/opensearch.go
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ import (
 	opensearchutil "github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-go/opensearchutil"
 )
 
-const indexer = "opensearch"
-
 // OSClient OpenSearch client instance
 var OSClient *opensearch.Client
 
@@ -44,7 +42,7 @@ type OpenSearch struct {
 
 // Init function
 func init() {
-	indexerMap[indexer] = &OpenSearch{}
+	indexerMap[OpenSearchIndexer] = &OpenSearch{}
 }
 
 // Returns new indexer for OpenSearch
@@ -140,7 +138,7 @@ func (OpenSearchIndexer *OpenSearch) Index(documents []interface{}, opts Indexin
 	for stat, val := range indexerStats {
 		statString += fmt.Sprintf(" %s=%d", stat, val)
 	}
-	if(redundantSkipped > 0){
+	if redundantSkipped > 0 {
 		statString += fmt.Sprintf(" redundantskipped=%d", redundantSkipped)
 	}
 	return fmt.Sprintf("Indexing finished in %v:%v", dur.Truncate(time.Millisecond), statString), nil