I'm trying to reduce my logstash shards per index down from 5 to 2. ( Due to this conversation ) I've downloaded my template. curl -XGET $ELK/_template/logstash > logstash-template.json Then I've modified the settings field. "settings" : { "number_of_shards" : 2 }, However, when I try…

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How do you change the default number of shards?

spuder (Spuder) May 28, 2015, 7:18pm 4

This appears to have worked.

I've blogged the full procedure here for posterity.

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