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Can you have multiple indices on a shard? We often hear questions from users about their shard counts - let's discuss.

Bonsai Blog | Fully Managed Elasticsearch & OpenSearch • Can I have multiple indices on a shard? Contact Login Sign up November 19, 2015 Can I have multiple indices on a shard? Bonsai • Best practices • 5 min read We sometimes hear from users concerned about their shard counts. They ask how they can instruct Elasticsearch to add multiple indices to a single shard. This is a surprisingly difficult question to answer in full because the terminology can confuse the issue quite a bit. In Elasticsearch, every index maps to one or more shards, but the reverse is not true for some pretty sound techni

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