Need to adjust zeroreplicas template to have a lot more shards

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Hi. I have the following template in my ES.

http://pastebin.com/hAF40YFP

I need to hard set the number of shards I would like each new index to have.

I tried to add the following directly underneath the 'number of replicas' line but it complains.

"number_of_shards" : "10"

Error message:

{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"failed to parse template source"}],"type":"illegal_argument_exception","reason":"failed to parse template source","caused_by":{"type":"json_parse_exception","reason":"Unexpected character ('"' (code 34)): was expecting comma to separate OBJECT entries\n at [Source: [B@1bca689e; line: 8, column: 2]"}},"status":400}

Any pointers?

Thanks.

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Did the following and its working.

Deleted my test index and it was recreated with 10 shards and 0 replicas.

http://pastebin.com/kSubYpfQ

3

You should be careful doing that, you may end up wasting a lot of resources.

4

Thanks Mark.
What happens if we have 10 ES Data Nodes and they are all of equal performance Servers.
If we leave the default ES will only create 5 shards per index so some nodes will have shards and others won't ?

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What if you have one index with 5 documents and 10 shards?

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So it doesn't matter that some nodes won't have a shard?

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It's more that you are wasting resources on empty/low volume shards

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Understood.