# Index template
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template/259161
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 19, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template/259161 "2020-12-19T14:41:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Norman\_Khine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norman_Khine)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template/259161/1 "2020-12-19T14:41:36Z")
Hello, i have the following template for one of my indexes:
```auto
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:
```auto
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
---
### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template/259161/2 "2020-12-19T15:07:12Z")
Which tool/app is creating the index?
What happen if you run:
```
PUT /analytics-prod-test
```
?
---
### Author:  [@Norman\_Khine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norman_Khine)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template/259161/3 "2020-12-21T01:20:56Z")
> [@dadoonet](#):
>
> `PUT /analytics-prod-test `
I get
```auto
{
"acknowledged" : true,
"shards_acknowledged" : true,
"index" : "analytics-prod-test"
}
```
then `GET /analytics-prod-test/_stats` returns
```auto
{
"_shards" : {
"total" : 10,
"successful" : 10,
"failed" : 0
},
...
}
```
---
### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template/259161/4 "2020-12-21T03:01:54Z")
What is the out from this API [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-templates.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-templates.html)
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### Author:  [@Norman\_Khine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norman_Khine)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template/259161/5 "2020-12-22T14:45:30Z")
```auto
template_aws-elb-2020.11 [aws-elb-2020.11] 0
analytics-2020.04 [analytics-2020.04] 0
analytics-2020.05 [analytics-2020.05] 0
.kibana_task_manager [.kibana_task_manager] 0 7010199
template_elbv2 [aws-elbv2-*] 0
apm-6.5.3 [apm-6.5.3-*] 1
template_apigw [aws-apigw-*] 0
.management-beats [.management-beats] 0 70000
template_analytics-prod [analytics-prod-*] 0
template_aws-elb-2020.10 [aws-elb-2020.10] 0
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/index-template/259161/6 "2021-01-19T14:45:39Z")
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