I have a single-node ES 6.8 cluster with ~5500 shards. I have set the cluster.max_shards_per_node to '10000' in /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml as per this article: Miscellaneous cluster settings | Elasticsearch Guide [6.8] | Elastic But even after restart…

I might be reading the code wrong (because this is fairly old code at this point), but I think it's actually not reading that setting from Elasticsearch.yml. It's only reading it from cluster settings that have been set through the API. Since it's not finding it there, it's using the default. Try se…

Why am I getting warning about "Number of open shards exceeds cluster soft limit"?

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willdennis (Will Dennis) January 27, 2022, 2:14am 9

I hear you; I need to get what I have in order, and then I can work on data lifecycle matters, etc.

Also, I do want to upgrade to 7.x, but I have some index issues to resolve as well before I can do the upgrade... Like this one...

Topic		Replies	Views
Number of open shards exceeds cluster soft limit Elasticsearch	5	2525	July 18, 2019
Number of Shards open Issue - 7.0.1 Elasticsearch	6	32602	June 11, 2019
Problem with cluster.max_shards_per_node setting Elasticsearch	11	18256	August 16, 2019
7.0 Upgrade Assistant open shards Elasticsearch	5	1813	April 22, 2019
Maximum shards open 3000；es 7.3.0 Elasticsearch	3	1899	November 22, 2019

Why am I getting warning about "Number of open shards exceeds cluster soft limit"?

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