# Thousand of shards **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 25, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thousand-of-shards/19446 "2014-08-25T19:29:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Casper\_Thrane](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/casper_thrane/32/49777_2.png) [@Casper\_Thrane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Casper_Thrane)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thousand-of-shards/19446/1 "2014-08-25T19:29:20Z")
Hi! I am new to ES, and the system we are using is setup by an external consultant. The cluster is very unstable. I have tried to run this: -bash-4.1$ curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true)' { "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch", "status" : "green", "timed\_out" : false, "number\_of\_nodes" : 17, "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 4, "active\_primary\_shards" : 6238, "active\_shards" : 12268, "relocating\_shards" : 2, "initializing\_shards" : 0, "unassigned\_shards" : 0 } I have read a lot of places, that thousand of shards is a problem. Does the above say enough or should I get more data? Br Casper -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/71037f8b-6283-44ac-a8e7-06dfa1461e2d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/71037f8b-6283-44ac-a8e7-06dfa1461e2d%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 9:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thousand-of-shards/19446/2 "2014-08-25T21:40:35Z")
That sort of shard count is ok on your cluster as you have 17 nodes 🙂 Can you give us more details on what sort of hardware you run on, your java, ES and OS versions and releases? Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [markw@campaignmonitor.com](mailto:markw@campaignmonitor.com) web: [www.campaignmonitor.com](http://www.campaignmonitor.com) On 26 August 2014 05:29, Casper Thrane [casper.s.thrane@gmail.com](mailto:casper.s.thrane@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi! > > I am new to ES, and the system we are using is setup by an external > consultant. The cluster is very unstable. I have tried to run this: > -bash-4.1$ curl -XGET '[http://localhost:9200/\_cluster/health?pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true)' > > { > "cluster\_name" : "elasticsearch", > "status" : "green", > "timed\_out" : false, > "number\_of\_nodes" : 17, > "number\_of\_data\_nodes" : 4, > "active\_primary\_shards" : 6238, > "active\_shards" : 12268, > "relocating\_shards" : 2, > "initializing\_shards" : 0, > "unassigned\_shards" : 0 > } > > I have read a lot of places, that thousand of shards is a problem. Does > the above say enough or should I get more data? > > Br > Casper > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/71037f8b-6283-44ac-a8e7-06dfa1461e2d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/71037f8b-6283-44ac-a8e7-06dfa1461e2d%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/71037f8b-6283-44ac-a8e7-06dfa1461e2d%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/71037f8b-6283-44ac-a8e7-06dfa1461e2d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Z-jUCJ7-p1QfXfV9joS0OHZCoTYxMRFHuc5uqHxvtYtg%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Z-jUCJ7-p1QfXfV9joS0OHZCoTYxMRFHuc5uqHxvtYtg%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 1:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/thousand-of-shards/19446/3 "2017-07-06T01:06:36Z")