No of shards for 500mb index?

Gosforth · June 10, 2019, 10:02am

Default 5 shards and 1 replica is OK or I should decrease no of shards for such indices?
I have about 50 such indices on one host (1 cluster).
Regards

warkolm · June 10, 2019, 10:11am

Use 1, with 1 replica.

The default in 7.X is 1, you should upgrade

Gosforth · June 10, 2019, 11:17am

Thank you very much for this suggestion!

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