Specify primary shard and replica count in es fluentd helm chart

[Sushant20]

Is this a request for help?: Yes

---

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (choose one): Question/Feature request

Version of Helm and Kubernetes: helm2 , eks 1.15

Which chart in which version: fluentd-elasticsearch : 4.9.3

What happened: Elasticsearch creates five primary shards and one replica for each index

What you expected to happen: Looking for option to set the primary shard count to 1 in the helm chart or configmap

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Anything else we need to know:

[monotek]

This would be a setting in elastic search, not fluentd.

[Sushant20]

@monotek I am using AWS Elasticsearch and ideally primary shard and replica count setting is done during index creation because you might want to set this differently for different indexes. I am looking for something similar to what logstash output plugin provides: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-you-change-the-default-number-of-shards/1508/4. I believe, fluentd plugin is creating index so there should be setting at index level from fluentd end and not elasticsearch. Request you to not close the issue unless and until we get reply from issue creator or there is no reply from last 1 day

[monotek]

So you wan't to have other settings as your es default?

[Sushant20]

Yes @monotek , I need to set other setting as index default, similar to how logstash plugin provides: http://spuder.github.io/2015/elasticsearch-default-shards/

[monotek]

not sure if fluentd supports this. if so, should be rather easy to implement.

[Sushant20]

@monotek Could you please recheck at your end, I don't see an option to set it. This is definitely good feature, if not already present. Please reopen the issue, if its not available

[monotek]

Please check by yourself. I'm on vacation till middle of September.