Shards rebalance when adding nodes and using one primary and one replica

OK thanks. So what is explained in linked article is wrong right ? Oversharding is not really necessary as balance/rebalance happen despite the number of primary shard per index and the number of nodes (correct me if I'm wrong)

Use case is log collection for 600GB/day. We would like a retention of 1 month in HOT and 6 in COLD nodes

Daily volume by data type (I think to create one daily index by data type and rotate firewall logs every 50G using ILM - you think it's a good idea ?) :

  • Firewall : 300G
  • Web : 60G
  • Unix : 30G
  • Windows : 50G
  • Switch : 10G
  • Wireless : 5G
  • Database : 4G