# Disable Replicate Data on Elasticsearch Cluster

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-replicate-data-on-elasticsearch-cluster/306202
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 2, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-replicate-data-on-elasticsearch-cluster/306202 "2022-06-02T07:58:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Xenial](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xenial/32/97821_2.png) [@Xenial](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Xenial)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2022, 7:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-replicate-data-on-elasticsearch-cluster/306202/1 "2022-06-02T07:58:49Z")

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Hello Elastic Team,

I've create Elasticsearch with 3 node, when i send the data, Elasticsearch replicate my original data and consume more storage. How to disable replicated data on Elasticsearch Cluster?

Thankyou

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### Author: ![Tomo\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@Tomo\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tomo_M)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2022, 8:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-replicate-data-on-elasticsearch-cluster/306202/2 "2022-06-02T08:42:02Z")

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Hi,

Set [index.number\_of\_replicas](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-modules.html#dynamic-index-settings) to 0 on existing indices. If you want to change the setting by default, use [index template](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index-templates.html) function.

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### Author: ![Xenial](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xenial/32/97821_2.png) [@Xenial](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Xenial)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-replicate-data-on-elasticsearch-cluster/306202/3 "2022-06-02T09:41:40Z")

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Thankyou So Much @Tomo_M

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### Author: ![Xenial](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xenial/32/97821_2.png) [@Xenial](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Xenial)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2022, 6:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-replicate-data-on-elasticsearch-cluster/306202/4 "2022-06-03T06:57:53Z")

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Hi @Tomo_M , what the impact if set replication to 0 ?

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### Author: ![Tomo\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@Tomo\_M](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tomo_M)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2022, 7:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-replicate-data-on-elasticsearch-cluster/306202/5 "2022-06-03T07:34:20Z")

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The doc says:

```auto
WARNING: Configuring it to 0 may lead to temporary availability loss
during node restarts or permanent data loss in case of data corruption.

```

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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: [July 1, 2022, 7:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-replicate-data-on-elasticsearch-cluster/306202/6 "2022-07-01T07:35:20Z")

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