Hello everybody, Could you tell me please what is the best rule to calculate the number of shards for the index ? I found this rule but I don't know if it's the best one: 20 Shards max for each 1 GB of heap on each node And how can I chose the number of replicas ? Thanks for your help.

How to chose the number of shards and replica

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