ElasticSearch

How to increase the Shard Count

1. Open Kibana
2. Select Dev Tools
3. Run the following:

Note:

(Make sure you adjust the shard limit to the max you’d like to have set)

curl -u admin:admin -XPUT 'https://localhost:9200/_cluster/settings' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d' 
{
    "persistent" : {
        "action.search.shard_count.limit" : "1500"
    }
}
'