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

If you can't find what process is running elasticsearch on windows machine you can try running in console:

netstat -a -n -o

Look for port elasticsearch is running, default is 9200. Last column is PID for process that is using that port. You can shutdown it with simple command in console

taskkill /PID here_goes_PID /F