I’ll introduce the steps to completely uninstall Elasticsearch that was installed with Homebrew, the macOS package manager.

Stop & Uninstall Elasticsearch

First, stop the Elasticsearch process.

brew services stop elasticsearch@2.4

Next, uninstall Elasticsearch.

brew uninstall --force elasticsearch@2.4

Delete Elasticsearch Data & Log Files

Finally, completely delete the directories containing data and log files used by Elasticsearch.

rm -rf /usr/local/var/elasticsearch
rm -rf /usr/local/var/log/elasticsearch*

That’s all from the Gemba, where I want to manage Elasticsearch with Docker instead of Homebrew.