Getting ready

You need an installed working ElasticSearch server with an installed plugin. Stop the ElasticSearch server in order to safely remove the plugin.

How to do it...

ElasticSearch Plugin Manager, which comes with its script wrapper (plugin), provides command to automatically remove a plugin.

How it works...

The Plugin Manager –remove command tries to detect the correct name of the plugin and remove the directory of the installed plugin.

If there are undeletable files in your plugin directory (or a strange astronomical event that hits your server), the plugin script may fail: to manually remove a plugin, go in to the plugins directory and remove the directory with your plugin name.