# Disable Internal shards

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-internal-shards/374631>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 17, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-internal-shards/374631 "2025-02-17T14:12:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![rihad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@rihad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rihad)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-internal-shards/374631/1 "2025-02-17T14:12:28Z")

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Hi, after upgrading ES from 7.14 to 7.17.11 I started noticing these entries in \_cat/shards:

```auto
index shard prirep state docs store 
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2025.01.06-000002 0 r STARTED
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2025.01.06-000002 0 p STARTED
.ds-ilm-history-5-2024.12.23-000001 0 r STARTED
.ds-ilm-history-5-2024.12.23-000001 0 p STARTED
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2024.12.23-000001 0 p STARTED
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2024.12.23-000001 0 r STARTED
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2025.02.03-000004 0 r STARTED
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2025.02.03-000004 0 p STARTED
.ds-ilm-history-5-2025.01.22-000002 0 p STARTED
.ds-ilm-history-5-2025.01.22-000002 0 r STARTED 
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2025.01.20-000003 0 r STARTED
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2025.01.20-000003 0 p STARTED
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2025.02.17-000005 0 r STARTED 
.ds-.logs-deprecation.elasticsearch-default-2025.02.17-000005 0 p STARTED

```

Is it possible to remove them and stop their creation in the future? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-internal-shards/374631/2 "2025-03-17T14:12:44Z")

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Closed on March 17, 2025, 2:12pm UTC

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