# Increase shards and replicas in new Index

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-shards-and-replicas-in-new-index/188900
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 11:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-shards-and-replicas-in-new-index/188900 "2019-07-04T11:21:03Z")
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### Author: ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-shards-and-replicas-in-new-index/188900/2 "2019-07-05T08:00:49Z")

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> [@mrashid](#):
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> Now I want to create the index with higher shards for better memory utilization.

What do you mean by that? What problem are you trying to solve?

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