Performance hit when multiple filebeats are sending to same ES

[hjazz6]

@BenB196

you will want to adjust the index.number_of_shards on the index(es) you're using, by default, Elasticsearch sets this value to 1, which doesn't really "scale".

When I set this value to say, 5, in each of the 5 elasticsearch.yml files in the 5 servers, does it mean there's 5 shards per index, or 5*5 shards per index?