From 29b891bbc6741abfb9bac83a62d56cd2e109133c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Bell Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:35:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: add section on shards --- runbooks/source/elasticsearch-storage-issues.html.md.erb | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/runbooks/source/elasticsearch-storage-issues.html.md.erb b/runbooks/source/elasticsearch-storage-issues.html.md.erb index 907a7554..fc0da6f4 100644 --- a/runbooks/source/elasticsearch-storage-issues.html.md.erb +++ b/runbooks/source/elasticsearch-storage-issues.html.md.erb @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ review_in: 6 months A way of increasing the storage space for either Hot or Warm nodes is to increase them. If increasing one then the other must be equal as well, for example if upping the Hot nodes to 20 Warm should be upped to 20 as well. +The number of shards and the nodes should be increased by a multiple of the index with the largest number of shards, further [information](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/open-distro-elasticsearch-shard-allocation/). + ## Manually migrating failed indexes It may be necessary to migrate indexes manually. The process for this is: