# Managing ElasticSearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elasticsearch/106581>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 6, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elasticsearch/106581 "2017-11-06T19:27:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![dmossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@dmossie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dmossie)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elasticsearch/106581/1 "2017-11-06T19:27:50Z")

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Hi everyone,

I am new to ElasticSearch. I was wondering what is the best way to manage the database.  
I have new data going into ElasticSearch constantly from logstash.

I need to know how much data is being saved and taken up on my server, as well as search for and delete data. ElasticSearch doen't seem to have a GUI?

How do you guys go about this? Any suggestions?

Thanks,  
Dan

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elasticsearch/106581/2 "2017-11-06T22:21:28Z")

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Elasticsearch isn't a database, I say that because it's an important distinction. Database implies ACID compliance and a bunch of other things that don't apply to distributed systems 🙂

> [@dmossie](#):
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> I need to know how much data is being saved and taken up on my server, as well as search for and delete data. Elasticsearch doen't seem to have a GUI?

Check out [Monitoring the Elastic Stack | X-Pack for the Elastic Stack [5.6] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/x-pack/5.6/xpack-monitoring.html)

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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:** [December 4, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/managing-elasticsearch/106581/3 "2017-12-04T22:21:41Z")

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