# Elastic and Kibana Load Balancing **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 12, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-and-kibana-load-balancing/190251 "2019-07-12T13:32:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-and-kibana-load-balancing/190251/21 "2019-07-13T15:37:02Z")
> [@adwaitjoshi](#): > > So you would just change "number\_of\_shards" : 50 and "number\_of\_replicas" : 2 (is 2 enough?) No. Please read the docs around the split index API I linked to. ---
**Author:** ![adwaitjoshi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adwaitjoshi/32/35098_2.png) [@adwaitjoshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adwaitjoshi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-and-kibana-load-balancing/190251/22 "2019-07-13T15:37:40Z")
And its OK if the primary index has 50 shards but the dailies only have 5 for example? That's typically not an issue to have differing shards? ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-and-kibana-load-balancing/190251/23 "2019-07-13T15:39:32Z")
No, different indices should have different settings depending on data and load. For small daily indices I would keep the default 1 shard. If they are vary small and you plan to keep them long I would even recommend going to weekly or monthly indices in order to increase the average shard size. ---
**Author:** ![adwaitjoshi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adwaitjoshi/32/35098_2.png) [@adwaitjoshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adwaitjoshi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-and-kibana-load-balancing/190251/24 "2019-07-13T15:41:14Z")
So a good rule of thumb is to have 10GB per shard then? If thats the case we can plan accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![adwaitjoshi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adwaitjoshi/32/35098_2.png) [@adwaitjoshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adwaitjoshi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-and-kibana-load-balancing/190251/25 "2019-07-13T15:58:52Z")
Our daily index will be between 5 and 10gb and it will stay there almost for ever! We dont delete any data. ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-and-kibana-load-balancing/190251/26 "2019-07-13T16:48:31Z")
In that case aim for larger shards. 30GB to 50GB is often a good size to aim for. ---
**Author:** ![adwaitjoshi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/adwaitjoshi/32/35098_2.png) [@adwaitjoshi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/adwaitjoshi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-and-kibana-load-balancing/190251/27 "2019-07-13T19:35:31Z")
Thanks Christian. I will give that a shot. Any concerns/comments about running Kibana on both 120 and 121 and using NGINX to round robin? Just our way of load balancing? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-and-kibana-load-balancing/190251/28 "2019-08-10T19:35:46Z")
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