# How to calculate Shard size

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-shard-size/259945>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 31, 2020, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-shard-size/259945 "2020-12-31T09:17:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aniket\_Pant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-shard-size/259945/1 "2020-12-31T09:17:08Z")

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i don't know how to calculate shard size suppose we have 2499 shards and 443 indices and its data size 650gb

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-shard-size/259945/2 "2020-12-31T09:18:55Z")

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650GB / 2499 shards = 0.26GB/shard (average shard size)

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**Author:** ![Aniket\_Pant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-shard-size/259945/3 "2020-12-31T09:20:12Z")

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Thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-calculate-shard-size/259945/4 "2021-01-28T09:20:30Z")

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