How Do I Check the Numbers of Shards and Replicas in a Cluster on the CSS Console?

  1. Log in to the console.

  2. On the Clusters page, click Access Kibana in the Operation column of a cluster.

  3. Log in to Kibana and choose Dev Tools.

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  4. On the Console page, run the GET _cat/indices?v command query the number of shards and replicas in a cluster. In the following figure, the pri column indicates the number of index shards, and the rep column indicates the number of replicas. After an index is created, its pri value cannot be modified. Its rep value can be modified.

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