[SOLVED] Where does Elasticsearch store its data?

Where does Elasticsearch store its data?

So I have this Elasticsearch installation, in insert data with logstash, visualize them with kibana.

Everything in the conf file is commented, so it's using the default folders which are relative to the elastic search folder.

1/ I store data with logstash
2/ I look at them with kibana
3/ I close the instance of elastic seach, kibana and logstash
4/ I DELETE their folders
5/ I re-extract everything and reconfigure them
6/ I go into kibana and the data are still there

How is this possible?

This command will however delete the data : curl -XDELETE 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/_all'

Thanks.

ps : forgot to say that I'm on windows

Solution

If you've installed ES on Linux, the default data folder is in /var/lib/elasticsearch (CentOS) or /var/lib/elasticsearch/data (Ubuntu)

If you're on Windows or if you've simply extracted ES from the ZIP/TGZ file, then you should have a data sub-folder in the extraction folder.