How do I find where ElasticSearch is installing my plugins?

Question

I have installed elasticsearch with brew install elasticsearch. My plugins seem to reside in /usr/local/Cellar/elasticsearch/0.19.8/plugins. With

Answer 1

Not totally sure what you are trying to achieve, but hopefully this will help. There are a couple of way to find the plugins directory for elasticsearch. You can set plugins: TRACE in the logging.yml file, it will cause elasticsearch to log the full path of plugins that it's loading. You can also execute

$ curl "localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes?settings=true&pretty=true"

to check the current settings. Elasticsearch is using location specified in the path.plugins settings to load plugins. If path.plugins is not set, it will use plugins directory in the directory specified by the path.home setting.