hi, I am using filebeat to ship logs into elasticsearch, in the filebeat.yml, we can define number of primary shards of created index. I am creating a weekly index as following: index: "myn-%{+yyyy.ww}" and the size of logs (which their path defined in filebeat.yml in the filebeat.inputs part …

Number of primary shards

sahere37 (LR) November 20, 2018, 7:11am 3

thanks, the default is 3, should i used less than 3?

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