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

Just in case you want to find PID of the instance and kill the process, assuming that the node is listening to port 9300 (the default port) you can run the following command :

kill -9  $(netstat -nlpt | grep 9200 | cut -d ' ' -f 58 | cut -d '/' -f 1)

You may have to play with the numbers in the above-mentioned code such as 58 and 1