[Docs] Add a warning to the default max number of shards allowed in a cluster #35943
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APIs to create and manage indices and templates
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General docs changes
v6.6.0
v7.0.0-beta1
The
cluster.shards.max_per_node
setting has been added in #34021 & #34892 as a soft limit on the number of shards that are allowed in a cluster, with the default ratio of 1,000 shards per node.I do not question this default value but I think that we should make it really clear in the doc (under a WARNING section or something) that this default value could already be too high for many clusters. The risk I see here is people interpreting that "it is OK to have 1,000 shards on 1 Elasticsearch node" because this is the max default value we propose.
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