When monitoring the ElasticSearch server, listen for exit event instead of close event.

See documentation as to the difference between the two: http://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_event_exit

Event: 'exit'

• code Number the exit code, if it exited normally.
• signal String the signal passed to kill the child process, if it was killed by the parent.

This event is emitted after the child process ends. If the process terminated normally, code is the final exit code of the process, otherwise null. If the process terminated due to receipt of a signal, signal is the string name of the signal, otherwise null.

Note that the child process stdio streams might still be open.

Also, note that node establishes signal handlers for 'SIGINT' and 'SIGTERM', so it will not terminate due to receipt of those signals, it will exit.

See waitpid(2).

Event: 'close'

• code Number the exit code, if it exited normally.
• signal String the signal passed to kill the child process, if it was killed by the parent.

This event is emitted when the stdio streams of a child process have all terminated. This is distinct from 'exit', since multiple processes might share the same stdio streams.