# How to increase the Shards limit in Elasticsearch 7.1

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-shards-limit-in-elasticsearch-7-1/204865>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 23, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-shards-limit-in-elasticsearch-7-1/204865 "2019-10-23T12:14:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![rbrodrigues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rbrodrigues/32/56358_2.png) [@rbrodrigues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rbrodrigues)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-shards-limit-in-elasticsearch-7-1/204865/1 "2019-10-23T12:14:41Z")

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Our application is indexing content and is passing the Elasticsearch 7.1 Shards limit of 1000.

What setting in elasticsearch.yml should we do to increase this limit?

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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:** [October 23, 2019, 1:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-shards-limit-in-elasticsearch-7-1/204865/2 "2019-10-23T13:24:37Z")

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That limit is set quite high so I would not recommend you update it? How many shards per node do you have?

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**Author:** ![rbrodrigues](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rbrodrigues/32/56358_2.png) [@rbrodrigues](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rbrodrigues)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-shards-limit-in-elasticsearch-7-1/204865/3 "2019-10-23T13:53:47Z")

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Hi, @Christian_Dahlqvist

We have 1000 shards per node. But we have only one node.

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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:** [October 23, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-shards-limit-in-elasticsearch-7-1/204865/4 "2019-10-23T17:22:28Z")

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That sounds like a lot of shards for just one node. I recommend you read [this blog post](https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-many-shards-should-i-have-in-my-elasticsearch-cluster) and look to reduce the shard count rather than increase the limit. having too many shards per node can lead to performance problems and instability. If you still want to go against the recommendation and increase it, the documentation can be found [here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.4/misc-cluster.html).

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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:** [November 20, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-increase-the-shards-limit-in-elasticsearch-7-1/204865/5 "2019-11-20T17:22:48Z")

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