# Elasticsearch isn't making new indices have replicas
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 24, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626 "2016-02-24T17:34:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Stuart\_Cracraft1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stuart_Cracraft1)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2016, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626/1 "2016-02-24T17:34:08Z")
Despite:
index.number\_of\_replicas: 2
in /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml on my cluster nodes
new indices are not being replicated:
summary | awk '$5 == 0'
health status index pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green open logstash-2016.02.20 5 0 3536958 0 1gb 1gb
green open logstash-2016.02.21 5 0 3656177 0 1.1gb 1.1gb
green open logstash-2016.02.22 5 0 5557430 0 1.5gb 1.5gb
green open logstash-2016.02.23 5 0 4782864 0 1.1gb 1.1gb
green open logstash-2016.02.24 5 0 3079991 0 853.9mb 853.9mb
Past ones after a manual PUT of replica count as 2 are all 2 up to the 20th.
The elasticsearch cluster nodes has been rebooted several times since the
index.number\_of\_replicas: 2
was put into elasticsearch.yml weeks ago.
My question is why isn't elasticsearch automatically setting up replicas for the new daily indices?
Thanks for any thoughts.
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### Author:  [@crickes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/crickes)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626/2 "2016-02-25T16:17:28Z")
Hard to say from just this as to what could be causing the issue. In the past when I've come across the same problem its been because I had tagged the index to go to a hot node, and there wasn't enough space any hot nodes to store the data. Have you set node-type on any of your nodes?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 8:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626/3 "2016-02-25T20:31:57Z")
It's because the template for Logstash defines a single replica, and templates take precedence over that setting.
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### Author:  [@Stuart\_Cracraft1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stuart_Cracraft1)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626/4 "2016-02-25T20:58:24Z")
Do you know where the template is defined?
I can of course run a script to replicate logstash indexes automatically via cron daily but would like to take the other road if it is even feasible to change the logstash template.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626/5 "2016-02-26T00:11:10Z")
Check the `_template` API endpoint.
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### Author:  [@Stuart\_Cracraft1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Stuart_Cracraft1)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626/6 "2016-02-26T17:26:32Z")
Okay, I've put this in on all the ES cluster nodes:
cat /etc/elasticsearch/templates/logstash.template
{
"logstash" : {
"order" : 0,
"template" : "logstash-_",
"settings" : {
"index.refresh\_interval" : "5s",
"index.number\_of\_replicas": "2",
"index.number\_of\_shards:" "5"
},
"mappings" : {
"default" : {
"dynamic\_templates" : [ {
"string\_fields" : {
"mapping" : {
"index" : "analyzed",
"omit\_norms" : true,
"type" : "string",
"fields" : {
"raw" : {
"index" : "not\_analyzed",
"ignore\_above" : 256,
"type" : "string"
}
}
},
"match\_mapping\_type" : "string",
"match" : "_"
}
} ],
"properties" : {
"geoip" : {
"dynamic" : true,
"path" : "full",
"properties" : {
"location" : {
"type" : "geo\_point"
}
},
"type" : "object"
},
"@version" : {
"index" : "not\_analyzed",
"type" : "string"
}
},
"\_all" : {
"enabled" : true
}
}
},
"aliases" : { }
}
}
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### Author:  [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626/7 "2016-02-26T18:15:23Z")
Be mindful that file based templates went away in Elasticsearch 2.0.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626/8 "2016-02-26T18:42:47Z")
Also, two replicas is overkill.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-isnt-making-new-indices-have-replicas/42626/9 "2017-07-05T23:13:17Z")