# Daily index vs hourly index, which is better for Search in period of month?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/daily-index-vs-hourly-index-which-is-better-for-search-in-period-of-month/293026
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [December 28, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/daily-index-vs-hourly-index-which-is-better-for-search-in-period-of-month/293026 "2021-12-28T08:36:24Z")
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### Author:  [@jr2001](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jr2001)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2021, 8:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/daily-index-vs-hourly-index-which-is-better-for-search-in-period-of-month/293026/1 "2021-12-28T08:36:24Z")
Hi There,
We have an indexing which is growing around 1.4 TB per day.
this daily index have 4 million documents almost.
each daily index has 6 primary shards and no replicas.
we have 2 physical server (Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS)
server A : 3 master only node and 3 data node.
server B : 2 master only node and 2 data node and 1 data-master eligible node.
we used Elasticsearch 7.12.0 and nodes was done with Docker, Figured out the Java heap of 31 GB for each nodes.
about the use case: write is heavy and indexing data currently it is running all time and is pretty fast.
Its a platform which will be used by 100 members at least. but may not be concurrent. Search queries are performed for a period of one month.
documents generally immutable and do not update.
some configs for nodes are:
```auto
- "cluster.info.update.interval=2m"
- "index.merge.scheduler.max_thread_count=1"
- "http.max_content_length=1536mb"
- "index.refresh_interval=60s"
- "bootstrap.memory_lock=true"
```
What we really want to find out if, will be the hourly indexes is the better option than a single huge daily index?
I want to thank you in advance.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/daily-index-vs-hourly-index-which-is-better-for-search-in-period-of-month/293026/2 "2021-12-28T21:33:25Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃
You'd want to test that to get a definitive answer. But given what info you have provided, I don't think it will, as larger shards are better for search.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/daily-index-vs-hourly-index-which-is-better-for-search-in-period-of-month/293026/3 "2022-01-25T21:34:06Z")
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