Solved, followed this: How to move from 3 node cluster to single node - #4 by leandrojmp
PUT _cluster/settings
{
"persistent" : {
"cluster.routing.allocation.exclude._ip" : "NODE-IP"
}
}
PUT /*/_settings
{
"index" : {
"number_of_replicas":0,
"auto_expand_replicas": false
}
}
Removed node-2 references in elasticsearch.yml
Restart ES.
Stopped node 2 ES then shutdowned server.
Solved.