# Measuring Shard hits **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 21, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/measuring-shard-hits/157750 "2018-11-21T16:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jayDev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@jayDev](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jayDev)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/measuring-shard-hits/157750/1 "2018-11-21T16:53:13Z")
I have my indexes mostly in time-aligned shards, so each 24 hour period results in a new shard. I am interested to know if I can measure the relative search hits per shard across each index. The reason for doing this, is so I can identify inefficient retention configuration in certain indexes. i.e. If I only see hits for the most recent 7-day rolling window, I can reduce my data retention settings to something closer to 7 days. Note: I also have the data pushed to long term storage, so data loss isn't a concern. Is there a standard way of achieving this? Thanks. ---
**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:** [November 21, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/measuring-shard-hits/157750/2 "2018-11-21T21:55:08Z")
If you use the free Monitoring functionality you can see per index query requests. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/measuring-shard-hits/157750/3 "2018-12-19T21:55:12Z")
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