My rules is : 1 primary shard per server. Also make some estimation how big will be the single index/shard
I think it is not good if single shard exceed 10 GB, although there is no exact limit. Georgi On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 7:00:23 PM UTC+1, John S wrote: > > Hi All, > > Is there any best practices of having on the number of shards for a > cluster? I have a 4 node cluster and used shards of 20. > > During any node failure or other events i doubts since the shards number > is high, replication to new node is taking more time... > > Is there any metrics or formula to be done for number or shards? > > Regards > John > -- 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/36ef3ed0-870f-41a5-915b-fb3ad919f7a0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
