Changing elasticsearch index's shard-count on the next index-rotation

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i have an ELK(Elasticsearch-Kibana) stack wherein the elasticsearch node
has the default shard value of 5. Logs are pushed to it in logstash format(
logstash-YYYY.MM.DD), which- correct me if i am wrong- are indexed
date-wise.

Since i cannot change the shard count of an existing index without
reindexing, i want to increase the number of shards to 8 when the next
index is created. i figured that the ES-API allows on-the-fly persistent
changes.

How do i go about doing this?

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Hey,

if you use logstash, you could change the default index template to use 8
shards. See

--Alex

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Abhishek Tiwari erbdex@gmail.com wrote:

i have an ELK(Elasticsearch-Kibana) stack wherein the elasticsearch node
has the default shard value of 5. Logs are pushed to it in logstash format(
logstash-YYYY.MM.DD), which- correct me if i am wrong- are indexed
date-wise.

Since i cannot change the shard count of an existing index without
reindexing, i want to increase the number of shards to 8 when the next
index is created. i figured that the ES-API allows on-the-fly persistent
changes.

How do i go about doing this?

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