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