# Performance of kibana dashboard, one index, many visualizations or multiple indices many visualizations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-of-kibana-dashboard-one-index-many-visualizations-or-multiple-indices-many-visualizations/230904>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 4, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-of-kibana-dashboard-one-index-many-visualizations-or-multiple-indices-many-visualizations/230904 "2020-05-04T00:18:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![ElasticLiver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/elasticliver/32/64869_2.png) [@ElasticLiver](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ElasticLiver)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 12:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-of-kibana-dashboard-one-index-many-visualizations-or-multiple-indices-many-visualizations/230904/1 "2020-05-04T00:18:04Z")

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I ussualy create different indices based on the metric type, for example i create an index, for system uptime, cpu, memory... then I filter by machine an get the metrics by a particular machine...but I recently use metricbeat, and I realize that the indices are created per machine to get all the metrics, I was wandering if there is a perfomance benefit in kibana for making calls to only one index than multiple indexes?

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**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:** [May 4, 2020, 1:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-of-kibana-dashboard-one-index-many-visualizations-or-multiple-indices-many-visualizations/230904/2 "2020-05-04T01:39:57Z")

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If you used daily indices and you had 4 of them - ie 1 index for each of your mentioned metrics - with 3 primary shards and 3 replicas shards, you would have to query 12 shards to find the values for one host for one day. If you use the default Metricbeat approach, you would query 1 shard (again for one day).

It's about shards, not indices. And querying 1 shard will mostly be more performant than 12.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 1:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-of-kibana-dashboard-one-index-many-visualizations-or-multiple-indices-many-visualizations/230904/3 "2020-06-01T01:40:02Z")

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Closed on June 1, 2020, 1:40am UTC

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