How to stop/shut down an elasticsearch node?

Updated answer.

_shutdown API has been removed in elasticsearch 2.x.

Some options:

• In your terminal (dev mode basically), just type “Ctrl-C”

• If you started it as a daemon (-d) find the PID and kill the process: SIGTERM will shut Elasticsearch down cleanly (kill -15 PID)

• If running as a service, run something like service elasticsearch stop:

  • Linux
  • Windows

Previous answer. It’s now deprecated from 1.6.

Yeah. See admin cluster nodes shutdown documentation

Basically:

# Shutdown local node
$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_cluster/nodes/_local/_shutdown'

# Shutdown all nodes in the cluster
$ curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/_shutdown'