How to stop/shut down an elasticsearch node?

Question

I want to restart an elasticsearch node with a new configuration. What is the best way to gracefully shut down an node?

Is killing the process the best way of shutting t

Answer 1

use the following command to know the pid of the node already running.

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/_nodes/process'

It took me an hour to find out the way to kill the node and could finally do it after using this command in the terminal window.