# Requirements for the deployment of ELK

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/requirements-for-the-deployment-of-elk/300159
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 21, 2022, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/requirements-for-the-deployment-of-elk/300159 "2022-03-21T06:15:54Z")
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### Author: ![thujitha\_p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@thujitha\_p](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thujitha_p)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 6:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/requirements-for-the-deployment-of-elk/300159/1 "2022-03-21T06:15:54Z")

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Hi all,

Currently in our system has 2 Elasticsearch nodes. And we are facing an issue and it says, shards count reach 2000 limits. When I search I saw , it is not good to increase no of shards. But we can increase the shard size.

Can you tell how to handle this situation?

**How to manage indices in ELK?**

> - no of shards
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> - sizes of shards

Thanks in advance.

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### Author: ![casterQ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/casterq/32/93257_2.png) [@casterQ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/casterQ)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 7:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/requirements-for-the-deployment-of-elk/300159/2 "2022-03-21T07:47:45Z")

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`max_shards_per_node` limits the maximum number of open shards：

> **[Cluster-level shard allocation and routing settings | Elasticsearch Guide...](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.1/modules-cluster.html#cluster-max-shards-per-node)**

you can follow this doc to handle

> **[Size your shards | Elasticsearch Guide \[8.1\] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.1/size-your-shards.html)**

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### Author: ![thujitha\_p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@thujitha\_p](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/thujitha_p)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/requirements-for-the-deployment-of-elk/300159/3 "2022-03-21T10:17:02Z")

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Thank you @casterQ , I will check this. 🙂

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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: [April 18, 2022, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/requirements-for-the-deployment-of-elk/300159/4 "2022-04-18T10:17:56Z")

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