# Setting default # of replications and shards ES 5.0
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-default-of-replications-and-shards-es-5-0/69484
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 19, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-default-of-replications-and-shards-es-5-0/69484 "2016-12-19T18:40:06Z")
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### Author:  [@Mike\_Clarke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike_Clarke)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-default-of-replications-and-shards-es-5-0/69484/1 "2016-12-19T18:40:06Z")
How can I go about setting the default number of replications and shards for any new indices that will be created in ES? I know that you can use the API to define these for an already created index, but I would like to create my ES cluster, define default # of replications and shards for any index that is created and then let logstash start creating indices.
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### Author:  [@Lumaraf](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Lumaraf)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 9:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-default-of-replications-and-shards-es-5-0/69484/2 "2016-12-20T09:07:14Z")
You should have a look at index templates. I use those to configure shard, replicas and mappings for my logstash indices.
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-templates.html)
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### Author:  [@Mike\_Clarke](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike_Clarke)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-default-of-replications-and-shards-es-5-0/69484/3 "2016-12-20T22:10:11Z")
Thanks for the reference. I found this late last night and created a template this morning. I then created a new index that matched the template and it created the correct number of shards and replicas.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setting-default-of-replications-and-shards-es-5-0/69484/4 "2017-01-17T22:10:18Z")
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