# So many indices for activity\_page\_xxxxx in elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 6, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/so-many-indices-for-activity-page-xxxxx-in-elasticsearch/301690 "2022-04-06T03:16:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ericsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ericsoul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ericsoul)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/so-many-indices-for-activity-page-xxxxx-in-elasticsearch/301690/1 "2022-04-06T03:16:44Z")
why there are so many indices of activity\_page\_xxxxx in Elasticsearch? The default parameter of max\_shards\_per\_node is 1000, The activity\_page\_xxxxx is nearly 2000. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 4:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/so-many-indices-for-activity-page-xxxxx-in-elasticsearch/301690/2 "2022-04-06T04:58:06Z")
What is this index? I guess it's something you created? Are you using ILM? Datastreams? What is your use case? ---
**Author:** ![ericsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ericsoul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ericsoul)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 5:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/so-many-indices-for-activity-page-xxxxx-in-elasticsearch/301690/3 "2022-04-06T05:38:21Z")
Activity\_page is not created by ES? So is there any way to find out it is created by whom, like user,IP any information can help. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/so-many-indices-for-activity-page-xxxxx-in-elasticsearch/301690/4 "2022-04-06T05:54:48Z")
I don't know. What's the content of the index? What other services did you start? What is your version? ---
**Author:** ![ericsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ericsoul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ericsoul)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/so-many-indices-for-activity-page-xxxxx-in-elasticsearch/301690/5 "2022-04-06T06:00:08Z")
ES version is 7.9 The ES cluster is an old cluster without maintenance for a long time, no one knows the activity\_page come from where, but it increase daily. ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 6:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/so-many-indices-for-activity-page-xxxxx-in-elasticsearch/301690/6 "2022-04-06T06:02:54Z")
What is the content of the index? ``` GET /index/_search ``` ---
**Author:** ![ericsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@ericsoul](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ericsoul)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2022, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/so-many-indices-for-activity-page-xxxxx-in-elasticsearch/301690/7 "2022-04-06T06:27:16Z")
Found some business information and asked other ones with this clue, now don't know data put from where. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2022, 6:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/so-many-indices-for-activity-page-xxxxx-in-elasticsearch/301690/8 "2022-05-04T06:27:27Z")
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