# Change default shard
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-shard/180615
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 10, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-shard/180615 "2019-05-10T19:41:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-shard/180615/1 "2019-05-10T19:41:14Z")
in old ELK default number of shard was 5.
I upgraded to 7.0.1 and now it is set to 1.
how do I change this to default 5?
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### Author:  [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-shard/180615/2 "2019-05-10T19:56:50Z")
Alright found the command and it does change everything to what I want. But I only want indice that I create to be 5 and all system indice to 1.
That is how it was set in 6.X. why do elk have to change that.
```
PUT /_template/index_defaults
{
"index_patterns": "*",
"settings": {
"number_of_shards": 5
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 8:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-shard/180615/3 "2019-05-10T20:09:31Z")
Have a look at [https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-7-0-0-released](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-7-0-0-released)
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### Author:  [@elasticforme](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elasticforme)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-shard/180615/4 "2019-05-10T20:31:10Z")
> [@dadoonet](#):
>
> Have a look at [https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-7-0-0-released](https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-7-0-0-released)
David,
Read the post.
I can completely understand when you have one indice per day\*shard, that is too much.
but in my case I have all of my indice by year index-YYYY and so if I have five shard it will serve me result faster isn't it vs one shard?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-shard/180615/5 "2019-05-10T20:54:41Z")
Not really. One single shard if not overloaded will be faster.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2019, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-default-shard/180615/6 "2019-06-07T20:54:49Z")
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