How do I tell Elastic which mount to use for disk statistics

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I have various mounts on the host that Elastic runs on and Elastic is getting disk statistics from the wrong mount. How do I specify the right mount?

  Filesystem               Type       Size          Mounted on 
  overlay                  overlay    500G          /
  /dev/disk-disk           xfs        2T            /data

I want to tell Elastic to use the xfs mount for statistics not the overlay one.

2

You can't. Elasticsearch uses the statistics for the filesystem containing its data. It wouldn't make any sense to use the statistics from a different filesystem.

3

Yea it doesn't make sense to get stats from a directory you don't use.

My problem was i wasn't specifying the right directory. Elastic assumes you are putting data in /usr/share/elasticsearch/data unless you specifically change that path. I need to specify my path.

Thanks