# Recommended shard quantity **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 17, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-shard-quantity/363298 "2024-07-17T17:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fernando\_Oliveira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fernando_oliveira/32/80628_2.png) [@Fernando\_Oliveira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fernando_Oliveira)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-shard-quantity/363298/1 "2024-07-17T17:21:04Z")
Hello. I created a cluster following some practices for redundancy : 3 - node master 2 - node hot 2 - node warm What would be the recommended amount of shard for my index? ---
**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-shard-quantity/363298/2 "2024-07-17T17:23:06Z")
It will depend on your use case and expected data volumes, both ingest as well as retention. Have you looked [at the guidelines in the documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/size-your-shards.html)? ---
**Author:** ![Fernando\_Oliveira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/fernando_oliveira/32/80628_2.png) [@Fernando\_Oliveira](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fernando_Oliveira)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-shard-quantity/363298/3 "2024-07-18T14:02:07Z")
Hello ! I read the document, thank you! It recommends not letting the shard exceed 50GB or up to 2 million documents. Currently my index has 235844650 documents.. One question, below I put the print of my "aplicacao" index Primaries, would it be the primary shard? Replicas, would it be the shard replica? Primary Storage Size, what is it? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/e/6/e6707e22e661d773fca997055bed5f1d87aa0157.png) ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-shard-quantity/363298/4 "2024-07-18T14:15:17Z")
From #Elastic Search to #Elasticsearch ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-shard-quantity/363298/5 "2024-08-15T14:15:36Z")
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