# Index creation limitation

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-creation-limitation/66645
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 20, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-creation-limitation/66645 "2016-11-20T13:50:49Z")
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### Author: ![411560729](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/ee59a6/32.png) [@411560729](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/411560729)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2016, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-creation-limitation/66645/1 "2016-11-20T13:50:49Z")

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here is the prolem, when we used ES 2.X, we created indexes too much,  
about hundreds of indexes per day so the ES stucked when creating  
indexes (the index creation process was very slow).

Is there any limitation about indexes count ? Is the es service available (can accept queries ) when creating indexes?

thanks a lot for hearing from you ...

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2016, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-creation-limitation/66645/2 "2016-11-20T15:31:49Z")

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Here is what Clint wrote in [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/21684#issuecomment-261781739:](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/21684#issuecomment-261781739:)

currently there is no limitation on the number of indices you can create. There are two possibilities we are looking at:

- The max number of shards per node: [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/20705](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/20705)
- Limiting index creation rate: [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/20760](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/20760)

See [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/11511](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/11511) for more safeguards

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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: [December 18, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-creation-limitation/66645/3 "2016-12-18T15:32:25Z")

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