FYI you can now split [1] and shrink [2] the number of shards. 1. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/indices-split-index.html https://

FYI you can now split [1] and shrink [2] the number of shards. 1. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/indices-split-index.html https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/... 2. https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/indices-shrink-index.html https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.1/...