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@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ The number of shards and replicas can be defined per index at the time the index
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By default, each index in Elasticsearch is allocated 5 primary shards and 1 replica which means that if you have at least two nodes in your cluster, your index will have 5 primary shards and another 5 replica shards (1 complete replica) for a total of 10 shards per index.
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-NOTE: An Elasticsearch shard is a Lucene index. There is a maximum number of documents you can have in a single Lucene index. As of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5843[`LUCENE-5843`], the limit is `2,147,483,519` (= Integer.MAX_VALUE - 128) documents.
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+NOTE: Each Elasticsearch shard is a Lucene index. There is a maximum number of documents you can have in a single Lucene index. As of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5843[`LUCENE-5843`], the limit is `2,147,483,519` (= Integer.MAX_VALUE - 128) documents.
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+You can monitor shard sizes using the http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-shards.html#cat-shards[`_cat/shards`] api.
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With that out of the way, let's get started with the fun part...
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Pius