# Kibana data directory

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-directory/168393>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 14, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-directory/168393 "2019-02-14T11:09:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![stuartdsmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@stuartdsmith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stuartdsmith)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-directory/168393/1 "2019-02-14T11:09:46Z")

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I'd like to change our kibana data directory - which I understand can be achieved by setting path.data.

This means kibana now looks for the keystore in this directory.

However kibana-keystore.bat create still creates the keystore in the default data folder.

How can I specify to the kibana-keystore.bat the new data directory.

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**Author:** ![jbudz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jbudz/32/45922_2.png) [@jbudz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jbudz)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-directory/168393/2 "2019-02-14T18:08:55Z")

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I just took a look, it's a bug and opened [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/31171](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/31171). Thanks for the notice.

I didn't see any easy workarounds, unfortunately. I think the best option is to manually move the file.

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**Author:** ![stuartdsmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@stuartdsmith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stuartdsmith)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-directory/168393/3 "2019-02-15T12:01:52Z")

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Thanks for looking into this and raising the bug request.

In the end we managed to work around by setting the DATA\_PATH environment variable before running kibana-keystore.bat.

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**Author:** ![drod](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/drod/32/47881_2.png) [@drod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drod)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-directory/168393/4 "2019-03-12T12:44:15Z")

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Which environment variable is that? I tried KIBANA\_DATA .

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**Author:** ![stuartdsmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@stuartdsmith](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stuartdsmith)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-directory/168393/5 "2019-03-12T12:56:03Z")

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"DATA\_PATH"

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**Author:** ![drod](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/drod/32/47881_2.png) [@drod](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drod)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-directory/168393/6 "2019-03-19T16:51:02Z")

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Thank you I found it.

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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:** [April 16, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-data-directory/168393/7 "2019-04-16T16:51:04Z")

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