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: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 26 August 2014 05:29, Casper Thrane <[email protected]> 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' > > { > "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 [email protected]. > 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?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624Z-jUCJ7-p1QfXfV9joS0OHZCoTYxMRFHuc5uqHxvtYtg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
