# Is there any changes to be done in Kibana, when changing the ES data path?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-changes-to-be-done-in-kibana-when-changing-the-es-data-path/73034>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [January 27, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-changes-to-be-done-in-kibana-when-changing-the-es-data-path/73034 "2017-01-27T16:07:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kulasangar\_Gowrisang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce73a5/32.png) [@Kulasangar\_Gowrisang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kulasangar_Gowrisang)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-changes-to-be-done-in-kibana-when-changing-the-es-data-path/73034/1 "2017-01-27T16:07:09Z")

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I'm having a number of indices which are actually causing some space issues at the moment in my **Ubuntu** machine. The indices keep growing on a daily basis.

So I thought of moving it to another mount directory which has more space apparently.

**What I did** : Followed this [SO](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35143926/how-to-move-elasticsearch-data-directory) and moved my **data** directory of `Elasticsearch` somehow to the directory _(/data/es\_data)_ I needed.

So what I need to know is, is there any configuration changes I should be doing in `Kibana` , after changing the **data** path in ES yml.

Any help could be appreciated.

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**Author:** ![weltenwort](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/weltenwort/32/53885_2.png) [@weltenwort](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/weltenwort)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-changes-to-be-done-in-kibana-when-changing-the-es-data-path/73034/2 "2017-01-27T16:26:06Z")

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Hi @Kulasangar_Gowrisang,

since Kibana only ever talks to the Elasticsearch HTTP API no changes should be necessary in your case. The actual location of the data is a node-specific configuration and invisible to Kibana.

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**Author:** ![Kulasangar\_Gowrisang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ce73a5/32.png) [@Kulasangar\_Gowrisang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kulasangar_Gowrisang)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-changes-to-be-done-in-kibana-when-changing-the-es-data-path/73034/3 "2017-01-27T16:32:16Z")

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@weltenwort thank you for your response 🙂

I was a bit curious on that, since it was regarding live data.

Now I'm clear! Thanks again.

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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:** [February 24, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-any-changes-to-be-done-in-kibana-when-changing-the-es-data-path/73034/4 "2017-02-24T16:32:16Z")

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