# Shards distribution over nodes

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-distribution-over-nodes/10032>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 11, 2012, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-distribution-over-nodes/10032 "2012-12-11T09:21:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Marcin\_Dojwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcin_dojwa/32/2307_2.png) [@Marcin\_Dojwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcin_Dojwa)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-distribution-over-nodes/10032/1 "2012-12-11T09:21:58Z")

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Hi,

Is there any way to check shards distribution over the nodes ? I would like  
to check how many shards there are on each node.

Thank you.  
Best regards.  
Marcin Dojwa

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**Author:** ![karmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/karmi/32/44951_2.png) [@karmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karmi)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-distribution-over-nodes/10032/2 "2012-12-11T09:56:59Z")

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You can access it in the `routing_nodes` part of Cluster State API  
[[http://localhost:9200/\_cluster/state](http://localhost:9200/_cluster/state)], Es-Head plugin  
[[GitHub - mobz/elasticsearch-head: A web front end for an elastic search cluster](https://github.com/mobz/elasticsearch-head)] shows it visually.

Karel

On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:21:58 AM UTC+1, Marcin Dojwa wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to check shards distribution over the nodes ? I would  
> like to check how many shards there are on each node.
> 
> Thank you.  
> Best regards.  
> Marcin Dojwa

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**Author:** ![Marcin\_Dojwa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marcin_dojwa/32/2307_2.png) [@Marcin\_Dojwa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marcin_Dojwa)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 12:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-distribution-over-nodes/10032/3 "2012-12-11T12:23:16Z")

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Thank you

2012/12/11 Karel Minařík [karel.minarik@gmail.com](mailto:karel.minarik@gmail.com)

> routing\_nodes

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/shards-distribution-over-nodes/10032/4 "2017-07-06T03:00:20Z")

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