# How to increase replicas for .kibana index
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 28, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124 "2020-09-28T05:05:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@shubhamblackstratus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shubhamblackstratus)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124/1 "2020-09-28T05:05:06Z")
Hi Team,
In my cluster, I've found that by default every new index created with 1 shard and 1 replica; So I also changed default settings with 2 primary and 2 replica successfully for every new indices, which was found working properly later.
However, I’ve ended up with already got created .kibana index with 1 shard and 1 replica. So I tried to increase its replicas by using API calls as shown below.
```auto
PUT /.kibana/_settings
{
"index" : {
"number_of_replicas" : 3
}
}
```
Issue definition: I am not able to increase its replicas while increasing its replicas to 3 even through already acknowledged through API.
Any help here will be much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124/2 "2020-09-28T05:13:56Z")
What happens after you run that request?
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### Author:  [@shubhamblackstratus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shubhamblackstratus)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 5:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124/3 "2020-09-28T05:14:30Z")
it shows acknowledged.
```auto
{
"acknowledged" : true
}
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124/4 "2020-09-28T05:15:08Z")
Ok, but how do you know it doesn't work?
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### Author:  [@shubhamblackstratus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shubhamblackstratus)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 5:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124/5 "2020-09-28T05:15:57Z")
I found that replicas are not increasing for .kibana index even though applying this command. Do I need to add/troubleshoot something ?
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 5:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124/6 "2020-09-28T05:17:14Z")
Check the index settings. I wonder if the Kibana index does not use [auto\_expand\_replicas](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.9/index-modules.html#dynamic-index-settings), which would override the `number_of_replicas` setting.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124/7 "2020-09-28T05:18:23Z")
AFAIK it does use auto-expand, most of the system indices do.
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### Author:  [@shubhamblackstratus](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shubhamblackstratus)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124/8 "2020-09-28T05:28:48Z")
Thank you so much @Christian_Dahlqvist @warkolm for your quick assistance over here. I appreciate your help and time.
I found that .kibana index replicas are shown increased now.
For the people who want the API call, I would like to add it here.
```auto
PUT /.kibana/_settings
{
"index" : {
"auto_expand_replicas" : "0-all"
}
}
```
[Reference Link](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.9/index-modules.html#dynamic-index-settings)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2020, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-replicas-for-kibana-index/250124/9 "2020-10-26T05:28:52Z")
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