Best config for Performance

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Is it still recommended to plan ahead and set the shard size to something you know will not change? For example, I've set my shard count to 5 / 1 on a single node Elastic Stack.

Decrease the number of shards

I'm somewhere here: curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/_template/logstash?pretty' { "logstash" : { "order" : 0, "template" : "logstash-*", "settings" : { "index" : { "number_of_shards" : "2" } }, "mappings" : { }, "aliases" : { } } } But my indices: curl -XGET 'localhost:9200/smsc-*/_settings?pretty' "smsc-2017.05.01" : { "settings" : { "index" : { "creation_date" : "1495180973719", "number_of_shards" : "5", "number_of_replicas" : "1", "uuid" :…