I upgraded my elasticsearch 1.3.2 to elasticsearch 2.3.2. All was well, but due to certain reasons I had to downgrade it back to 1.3.2. Now, I get to see only 5 shards per index. It used to be 8 shards per index. I have no idea how this has happened. Can anyone tell me how to go back to having 8 s…

Problem with Number of Shards (8 to 5)

nik9000 (Nik Everett) May 13, 2016, 2:29pm 2

Data isn't really backwards compatible. But If you hadn't written anything it might be ok.

That is a thing that you can get either from elasticsearch.yaml or by setting up a template.

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