# Increase no of shared not working (template update)
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-no-of-shared-not-working-template-update/220429
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-no-of-shared-not-working-template-update/220429 "2020-02-21T17:50:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Senthil\_ak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Senthil_ak)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-no-of-shared-not-working-template-update/220429/1 "2020-02-21T17:50:57Z")
Hi,
I have 3 master nodes and 3 data nodes running in elk. Beats sends logs to log stash and then to elk. The index name created from log stash o/p like below.
```
elasticsearch {
hosts => ["http://host1:9200","http://host2:9200","http://host3:9200"]
manage_template => false
index => "%{[@metadata][beat]}-%{[@metadata][version]}-%{+YYYY.MM.dd}"
```
Everything work fine, but now the all index are created with number of shards as '1'. I though of increasing it to 2 ~ 3. So by referring the link [template](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html) i created a default file beat template like below. But all my indexes are creating with only one shards and one replicas.
```
{
"filebeat" : {
"order" : 0,
"index_patterns" : [
"filebeat-*"
],
"settings" : {
"index" : {
"number_of_shards" : "3",
"number_of_replicas" : "1"
}
},
"mappings" : { },
"aliases" : { }
}
}
```
How to check what am i doing wrong ?
```
filebeat-7.2.0-2020.02.21 0 r STARTED 2163281
filebeat-7.2.0-2020.02.21 0 p STARTED 2163276
```
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-no-of-shared-not-working-template-update/220429/2 "2020-02-24T09:12:20Z")
Wild guess here: Is there another index template, that also matches the index pattern, that has a higher `order` and thus overwrites this number\_of\_shards setting again?
See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html#put-index-template-api-query-params](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html#put-index-template-api-query-params)
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### Author:  [@Senthil\_ak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Senthil_ak)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-no-of-shared-not-working-template-update/220429/3 "2020-02-24T15:01:20Z")
Yes you are right, there was a filebeat template and a filebeat-7.2.0 which is causing issues, i deleted both of them and now the default is taking care of the shards.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-no-of-shared-not-working-template-update/220429/4 "2020-03-23T15:01:20Z")
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