diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/node/service/NodeService.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/node/service/NodeService.java
index cb11fc02443..cf2bb0f9bb7 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/node/service/NodeService.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/node/service/NodeService.java
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ public class NodeService extends AbstractComponent implements Closeable {
 
     @Override
     public void close() throws IOException {
+        ingestService.close();
         indicesService.close();
     }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/IngestCloseIT.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/IngestCloseIT.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..502b2a9bf02
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/ingest/IngestCloseIT.java
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.elasticsearch.ingest;
+
+import org.elasticsearch.ingest.core.AbstractProcessorFactory;
+import org.elasticsearch.node.NodeModule;
+import org.elasticsearch.plugins.Plugin;
+import org.elasticsearch.test.ESSingleNodeTestCase;
+import org.junit.After;
+
+import java.io.Closeable;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+
+public class IngestCloseIT extends ESSingleNodeTestCase {
+
+    @Override
+    protected Collection<Class<? extends Plugin>> getPlugins() {
+        return pluginList(IngestPlugin.class);
+    }
+
+    private static AtomicBoolean called = new AtomicBoolean(false);
+
+    public void testCloseNode() throws Exception {
+        // We manually stop the node and check we called
+        stopNode();
+
+        assertThat(called.get(), is(true));
+
+        // We need to restart the node for the next tests (and because tearDown() expects a Node)
+        startNode();
+    }
+
+    public static class IngestPlugin extends Plugin {
+
+        @Override
+        public String name() {
+            return "ingest";
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String description() {
+            return "ingest mock";
+        }
+
+        public void onModule(NodeModule nodeModule) {
+            nodeModule.registerProcessor("test", (templateService, registry) -> new Factory());
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static final class Factory extends AbstractProcessorFactory<TestProcessor> implements Closeable {
+        @Override
+        protected TestProcessor doCreate(String tag, Map<String, Object> config) throws Exception {
+            return new TestProcessor("id", "test", ingestDocument -> {
+                throw new UnsupportedOperationException("this code is actually never called from the test");
+            });
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void close() throws IOException {
+            called.set(true);
+        }
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/test/ESSingleNodeTestCase.java b/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/test/ESSingleNodeTestCase.java
index de7a5219445..74300bef2ec 100644
--- a/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/test/ESSingleNodeTestCase.java
+++ b/test/framework/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/test/ESSingleNodeTestCase.java
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ public abstract class ESSingleNodeTestCase extends ESTestCase {
         startNode();
     }
 
-    private void startNode() {
+    protected void startNode() {
         assert NODE == null;
         NODE = newNode();
         // we must wait for the node to actually be up and running. otherwise the node might have started, elected itself master but might not yet have removed the
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ public abstract class ESSingleNodeTestCase extends ESTestCase {
             .put(IndexMetaData.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS, 0)).get();
     }
 
-    private static void stopNode() throws IOException {
+    protected static void stopNode() throws IOException {
         Node node = NODE;
         NODE = null;
         IOUtils.close(node);