Where does Elasticsearch store its data?

Question

So I have this Elasticsearch installation, in insert data with logstash, visualize them with kibana.

Everything in the conf file is commented, so it\'s using the defa

Answer 1

If you've installed ES on Linux, the default data folder is in /var/lib/elasticsearch (CentOS) or /var/lib/elasticsearch/data (Ubuntu)

If you're on Windows or if you've simply extracted ES from the ZIP/TGZ file, then you should have a data sub-folder in the extraction folder.