# .kibana Indices

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-indices/254120
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 3, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-indices/254120 "2020-11-03T08:37:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Aniket\_Pant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-indices/254120/1 "2020-11-03T08:37:37Z")

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I want to change .kibana indices shards and replicas but nothing works

```auto
PUT /_template/custom_kibana
{
  "index_patterns": ".kibana*",
  "order": 1,
  "settings": {
    "number_of_shards": 3,
    "number_of_replicas": 1
  }
}

```

```auto
health status index uuid pri rep docs.count docs.deleted store.size pri.store.size
green open .kibana-event-log-7.9.3-000001 ATjaNZXETlO3gBY8E74Zlw 1 1 3 0 32.6kb 16.2kb
green open .kibana_task_manager_1 MkRzeHDaRRSRKtOaFP6-yg 1 1 6 8 271kb 153.8kb
green open .kibana_1 njKmx--ATwSASowotvkw6A 1 1 31 28 20.9mb 10.4mb

```

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-indices/254120/2 "2020-11-03T08:59:54Z")

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Index templates only apply to new indices so will not change settings of existing ones. Why would you want 3 primary shards for these indices?

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### Author: ![Aniket\_Pant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/77aa72/32.png) [@Aniket\_Pant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aniket_Pant)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-indices/254120/3 "2020-11-03T09:21:26Z")

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I already deleted the previous indices of kibana.I m just checking does kibana can replicates its indices

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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 1, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-indices/254120/4 "2020-12-01T09:21:26Z")

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