# Rollover or not

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-or-not/145404>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-or-not/145404 "2018-08-21T14:09:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![JohanRask](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johanrask/32/22713_2.png) [@JohanRask](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JohanRask)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-or-not/145404/1 "2018-08-21T14:09:36Z")

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Hi,

My question is whether using Rollover API is useful even if we do not use a hot/warm hw setup (all our nodes have the same hardware).

What we want to gain is:

- to have more equal sized shards without having to manually configure each index.
- better utilization of resources since we can optimize non writable indices

Are these good enough reasons for moving to rollover? Perhaps there are more?

Any inputs is highly appreciated.

Regards /Johan

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**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:** [August 21, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-or-not/145404/2 "2018-08-21T14:12:16Z")

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> [@JohanRask](#):
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> to have more equal sized shards without having to manually configure each index.

That is exactly what rollover API allows you to do. As long as you have time-based data it does not really matter of you use hot-warm architecture or not - you will still benefit.

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**Author:** ![JohanRask](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johanrask/32/22713_2.png) [@JohanRask](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JohanRask)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2018, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-or-not/145404/3 "2018-08-21T14:19:59Z")

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Thanks @Christian_Dahlqvist!

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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:** [September 18, 2018, 2:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/rollover-or-not/145404/4 "2018-09-18T14:20:03Z")

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