Help with error

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What does this mean and how do I fix it?

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here is my code I am using c# NEST

client.CreateIndex(messageTime);
            var values = new { ChatType = chatType, Player = userName, Message = message, Time = DateTime.Now };
            var indexResponse = client.Index(values, descriptor => descriptor.Index(messageTime).Type("ChatLog"));
            Console.WriteLine(indexResponse.DebugInformation.ToString());
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Sounds like you have too many shards on your nodes.

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what are shards and nodes? I have 1 elastic search server that im trying to run chatlog on

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What is the full output of the cluster health API?

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{
"cluster_name": "docker-cluster",
"status": "yellow",
"timed_out": false,
"number_of_nodes": 1,
"number_of_data_nodes": 1,
"active_primary_shards": 502,
"active_shards": 502,
"relocating_shards": 0,
"initializing_shards": 0,
"unassigned_shards": 498,
"delayed_unassigned_shards": 0,
"number_of_pending_tasks": 0,
"number_of_in_flight_fetch": 0,
"task_max_waiting_in_queue_millis": 0,
"active_shards_percent_as_number": 50.2
}

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You have over 500 shards on the node which is quite s lot. It does look like you have a replica enabled and that the calculation includes this. If you change your index settings to disable replicas, which is fine as you only have one node, the error should go away. I would however recommend looking into why you have so many shards and rectify this.

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