Hi, We use Elasticsearch(7.x) to store application/system logs and our indices are time based where new index is created everyday. We have a requirment where different indices are created for every log types and also for every diff application per day. This results in too many indices created every…

Guidance on increasing cluster.max_shards_per_node

Christian_Dahlqvist (Christian Dahlqvist) July 14, 2020, 8:16am 8

As I explained above it is not all about heap usage so I would recommend following the provided guidelines.

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