# How to stop elasticsearch running (version 0.19.9)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-elasticsearch-running-version-0-19-9/9230>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 3, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-elasticsearch-running-version-0-19-9/9230 "2012-10-03T15:29:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Amy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Amy)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-elasticsearch-running-version-0-19-9/9230/1 "2012-10-03T15:29:59Z")

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Hi,  
I'm running Elasticsearch version 0.19.9. To start it I run  
${ES\_HOME}/bin/elasticsearch  
How do I stop it running? Adding 'stop' or -stop as an argument doesn't  
work - the argument is ignored.

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**Author:** ![Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rafal_kuc_3/32/799_2.png) [@Rafal\_Kuc\_3](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rafal_Kuc_3)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-elasticsearch-running-version-0-19-9/9230/2 "2012-10-03T15:33:16Z")

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Hello!

You can use the shutdown API: [http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-cluster-nodes-shutdown.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/admin-cluster-nodes-shutdown.html)

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Regards,

Rafał Kuć

Sematext :: [http://sematext.com/](http://sematext.com/) _:: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - ElasticSearch_

Hi,

I'm running Elasticsearch version 0.19.9. To start it I run

${ES\_HOME}/bin/elasticsearch

How do I stop it running? Adding 'stop' or -stop as an argument doesn't work - the argument is ignored.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-elasticsearch-running-version-0-19-9/9230/3 "2012-10-03T15:37:57Z")

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You have to kill its process.

But, you can use the elasticsearch service wrapper to be to start and stop ES as other services (start/stop/status)...

HTH

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David 😉  
Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs

Le 3 oct. 2012 à 17:29, Amy [amyblarney@gmail.com](mailto:amyblarney@gmail.com) a écrit :

> Hi,  
> I'm running Elasticsearch version 0.19.9. To start it I run  
> ${ES\_HOME}/bin/elasticsearch  
> How do I stop it running? Adding 'stop' or -stop as an argument doesn't work - the argument is ignored.
> 
> --

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-stop-elasticsearch-running-version-0-19-9/9230/4 "2017-07-06T03:10:20Z")

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