# ElasticSearch Node goes down

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-goes-down/188152>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 29, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-goes-down/188152 "2019-06-29T18:46:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sourabh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Sourabh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sourabh)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-goes-down/188152/5 "2019-06-29T19:05:24Z")

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Total number of shards is close to 8000 in the cluster at any given instant of time.Retention is d-2 days.Each document size in the index is approximately 1.8kb. We have opted for 100 shards so that the indexing is comparatively faster.The cluster is having index heavy load.Please guide where exactly the issue might be.

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