# Best Index Setting for Shards + Replica?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-index-setting-for-shards-replica/138161>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 2, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-index-setting-for-shards-replica/138161 "2018-07-02T09:36:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![MarcusCaepio](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcuscaepio/32/32458_2.png) [@MarcusCaepio](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/MarcusCaepio)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-index-setting-for-shards-replica/138161/1 "2018-07-02T09:36:52Z")

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Hi All,  
I have an index, which is being filled with round about 7000 - 8000 events per second (!).  
The indices itself are built daily. My cluster consists of 8 powerful server. Kibana is running on a VM with elasticsearch installed like described in [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.3/production.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.3/production.html). So what is the best shards and replicas setting for this type of indices to have a performant search in kibana?

Regards,  
Marcus

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-index-setting-for-shards-replica/138161/2 "2018-07-02T10:28:45Z")

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May I suggest you look at the following resources about sizing:

[https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2016/sf/quantitative-cluster-sizing](https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2016/sf/quantitative-cluster-sizing)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2018, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/best-index-setting-for-shards-replica/138161/3 "2018-07-30T10:28:45Z")

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