# 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:** ![mrashid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@mrashid](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mrashid)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-shards-and-replicas-in-new-index/188900/3 "2019-07-05T08:08:09Z")

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My assumption was that if i create more shards and segregate the events into the shards , better memory utilization will be possible and in turn the serach results will be faster.

I came across a similar issue here : [Elasticsearch querying is terribly slow](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-querying-is-terribly-slow/81144)

However , now I believe that because the amount of data in my case is 2 GB to max 12GB , I am better of maintaining 3 shards and increase the heap max /min in elastic search to 40 gb.

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