# Changing number of shards for new indices
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-number-of-shards-for-new-indices/18969
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 30, 2014, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-number-of-shards-for-new-indices/18969 "2014-07-30T07:22:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Kingdom\_Joy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kingdom_Joy)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-number-of-shards-for-new-indices/18969/1 "2014-07-30T07:22:23Z")
Hello,
Right now I have two nodes in my ES (part of ELK stack) cluster and 1 shard
for each index. I would like to change number of shards to two for future
indices. Can I do this by changing config file and restarting logstash?
Will it change number of shards for indices created after restarting ES?
Will it break existing indices?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@Kingdom\_Joy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kingdom_Joy)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 7:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-number-of-shards-for-new-indices/18969/2 "2014-07-30T07:27:28Z")
Typo in my previous message, here's corrected post:
Hello,
Right now I have two nodes in my ES (part of ELK stack) cluster and 1 shard
for each index. I would like to change number of shards to two for future
indices. Can I do this by changing config file and restarting ES? Will it
change number of shards for indices created after restarting ES? Will it
break existing indices?
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-number-of-shards-for-new-indices/18969/3 "2014-07-30T08:17:42Z")
It doesn't change existing indexes only new ones.
You can either do the setting change via the API or in the config, if you
choose the latter you will need a restart.
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On 30 July 2014 17:27, Kingdom Joy [thekingdomofjoy@gmail.com](mailto:thekingdomofjoy@gmail.com) wrote:
> Typo in my previous message, here's corrected post:
>
> Hello,
>
> Right now I have two nodes in my ES (part of ELK stack) cluster and 1
> shard for each index. I would like to change number of shards to two for
> future indices. Can I do this by changing config file and restarting ES?
> Will it change number of shards for indices created after restarting ES?
> Will it break existing indices?
>
> Thank you!
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-number-of-shards-for-new-indices/18969/4 "2017-07-06T01:12:18Z")