# Is there a limit on the number of indices in a node?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-the-number-of-indices-in-a-node/72055>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 18, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-the-number-of-indices-in-a-node/72055 "2017-01-18T16:47:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![zia\_aliz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/zia_aliz/32/14687_2.png) [@zia\_aliz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/zia_aliz)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-the-number-of-indices-in-a-node/72055/1 "2017-01-18T16:47:18Z")

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Hello,

Is there a limit to the number of indices one can have in a ES node? I haven't found information specifying a concrete limit per-se, so I'm assuming there isn't a limit and we should just scale up in the number of nodes within the cluster, but I'd like confirmation!

Thanks

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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:** [January 21, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-the-number-of-indices-in-a-node/72055/2 "2017-01-21T08:47:42Z")

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There isn't one, it's more shards that take up resources.  
To figure that out you'd need to test on your data.

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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:** [February 18, 2017, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-a-limit-on-the-number-of-indices-in-a-node/72055/3 "2017-02-18T08:48:38Z")

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