Index template

[Norman_Khine]

Hello, i have the following template for one of my indexes:

PUT _template/template_analytics-prod
{
  "index_patterns": [
    "analytics-prod-*"
  ],
  "settings": {
    "number_of_shards": 2,
    "number_of_replicas": 1,
    "auto_expand_replicas": false
  }
}

but when i look at new indexes being created they still have 5 shards, for example:

curl -X GET  'http://localhost/_cat/indices/*?bytes=b&v&index=index_name&h=index,docs.count,store.size,pri.store.size,pri'  | awk 'NR<3{print $0;next}{print $0| "sort -r"}' | grep 'analytics-prod-2020.12.19'

analytics-prod-2020.12.19             243355   563717328      299907775   5

what am i missing?

any advice is much appreciated

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

Which tool/app is creating the index?

What happen if you run:

PUT /analytics-prod-test 

?

[Norman_Khine]

@dadoonet

PUT /analytics-prod-test

I get

{
  "acknowledged" : true,
  "shards_acknowledged" : true,
  "index" : "analytics-prod-test"
}

then GET /analytics-prod-test/_stats returns

{
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 10,
    "successful" : 10,
    "failed" : 0
  },
...
}

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

What is the out from this API https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-templates.html

[Norman_Khine]

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analytics-2020.05        [analytics-2020.05]    0 
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template_elbv2           [aws-elbv2-*]          0 
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template_apigw           [aws-apigw-*]          0 
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template_analytics-prod  [analytics-prod-*]     0 
template_aws-elb-2020.10 [aws-elb-2020.10]      0