# Changing the default number of shard/replicas?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-the-default-number-of-shard-replicas/3115
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 17, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-the-default-number-of-shard-replicas/3115 "2010-07-17T00:31:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@David\_Jensen\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_Jensen_2)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-the-default-number-of-shard-replicas/3115/1 "2010-07-17T00:31:29Z")
Is there a way I can change the default number of shards and replicas
so that I don't have to include that information each time I create an
index?
For instance if I put the following in elasticsearch.yaml will it
work?
index:
number\_of\_shards: 10
number\_of\_replicas: 2
---
### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-the-default-number-of-shard-replicas/3115/2 "2010-07-17T00:35:07Z")
Yep. Index level settings set on the settings file will be used. They
basically provide the "defaults" unless explicit settings to override them
are set on the index creation level.
-shay.banon
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:31 AM, David Jensen [djensen47@gmail.com](mailto:djensen47@gmail.com) wrote:
> Is there a way I can change the default number of shards and replicas
> so that I don't have to include that information each time I create an
> index?
>
> For instance if I put the following in elasticsearch.yaml will it
> work?
>
> index:
> number\_of\_shards: 10
> number\_of\_replicas: 2
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/changing-the-default-number-of-shard-replicas/3115/3 "2017-07-06T04:22:07Z")