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[role="xpack"]
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[testenv="basic"]
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[[config-monitoring-indices]]
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== Configuring indices for monitoring
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<<indices-templates,Index templates>> are used to configure the indices
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that store the monitoring data collected from a cluster.
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You can retrieve the templates through the `_template` API:
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[source,console]
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GET /_template/.monitoring-*
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By default, the template configures one shard and one replica for the
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monitoring indices. To override the default settings, add your own template:
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. Set the `template` pattern to `.monitoring-*`.
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. Set the template `order` to `1`. This ensures your template is
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applied after the default template, which has an order of 0.
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. Specify the `number_of_shards` and/or `number_of_replicas` in the `settings`
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section.
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For example, the following template increases the number of shards to five
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and the number of replicas to two.
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[source,console]
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PUT /_template/custom_monitoring
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{
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"index_patterns": ".monitoring-*",
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"order": 1,
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"settings": {
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"number_of_shards": 5,
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"number_of_replicas": 2
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}
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}
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IMPORTANT: Only set the `number_of_shards` and `number_of_replicas` in the
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settings section. Overriding other monitoring template settings could cause
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your monitoring dashboards to stop working correctly.
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