# Why Kibana and monitor idexes 2 shards by default

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-kibana-and-monitor-idexes-2-shards-by-default/108794>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 22, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-kibana-and-monitor-idexes-2-shards-by-default/108794 "2017-11-22T21:25:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![GambitK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@GambitK](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/GambitK)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-kibana-and-monitor-idexes-2-shards-by-default/108794/1 "2017-11-22T21:25:47Z")

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Hello, I have a new server to try elasticsearch 6 and there's something that's giving me a lot of headache, why by default are the kibana, logstash, monitor indexes created with 2 shards?

Right now my 1 node cluster shows this:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/f/6/f6e0e457d1a8368e231b7843157d4a4cf4e27661.png)

Since this will be a 1 node elasticsearch cluster, how do I change it so those indexes and new ones created by the monitoring part of x-pack are only one shard?

Is there any default for indexes that do not configure how many shards there should be to only be 1 shard?

To update, all new indexes that are created have 1 assigned and 1 unassigned shard.

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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:** [December 20, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-kibana-and-monitor-idexes-2-shards-by-default/108794/2 "2017-12-20T21:25:59Z")

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Closed on December 20, 2017, 9:25pm UTC

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