# Sharding in App Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sharding-in-app-search/233908>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [May 22, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sharding-in-app-search/233908 "2020-05-22T13:43:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Subhasis\_Dash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/subhasis_dash/32/68827_2.png) [@Subhasis\_Dash](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Subhasis_Dash)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sharding-in-app-search/233908/1 "2020-05-22T13:43:55Z")

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HI ,  
Can anyone tell me how is app search configured with elastic and what are the number of shards it uses by default for each search-engine, and if i need to increase the no of shards associated with a search-engine how can we configure that with app-search.

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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:** [June 19, 2020, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sharding-in-app-search/233908/2 "2020-06-19T13:44:04Z")

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