Can I just the number of replica shards after index creation and the index starts taking documents? Can I increase and decrease as well? For our staging, I currently have 1 and I want to reduce it to 0. Will that automatically remove the replica shard if I change the number of replicas?

[image] Steve_Suh: I wanted to test it out on staging first before I try it on production. Sure. Adding replicas can have a cost: files need to be created, shards need to be allocated to a node, then files need to be sent over the wire etc. This is not a lightweight process but you can change…

Adjusting number of replica shards?

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Steve_Suh (Steve Suh) August 4, 2016, 3:25pm 5

If I go from 1 to 0 will Elasticsearch free up the resources from the replica shard?

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