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title: Shards view in AutoOps
description: The Shards view allows you to monitor the shards allocated to each node in your cluster. With this granular view into your cluster's health, you can get...
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/monitor/autoops/ec-autoops-shards-view
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Enterprise
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted
  - Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
applies_to:
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Shards view in AutoOps
The **Shards** view allows you to monitor the shards allocated to each node in your cluster. With this granular view into your cluster's health, you can get to the root cause of issues and resolve them to ensure optimal performance and reliability of your search and indexing operations.
To get to the **Shards** view, go to AutoOps in your deployment or cluster and select **Shards** from the side navigation.
![Screenshot showing the Shards view in AutoOps](https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/images/cloud-autoops-shard-view.png)

The **Shards** view provides the following insights:
- **Detailed Shard Breakdown**: Gain insights into each shard with a granular breakdown. View stats for shards from specific indices on any given node, allowing for in-depth performance and distribution analysis.
- **Size Information**: Quickly assess the storage footprint of each shard with precise size metrics, facilitating efficient resource management.
- **Document Count**: Monitor the number of documents contained within each shard to track and manage the shard load effectively.
- **Indexing Rate and Latency**: Keep an eye on indexing performance with real-time indexing rates and latencies. This ensures efficient and timely data indexing, helping maintain optimal performance.
- **Search Rate and Latency**: Optimize search functionalities by monitoring search rates and latencies. This ensures your search queries are processed quickly and effectively.


## Metrics in the Shards view

Use the **Sort by** dropdown to view shard information sorted by different metrics. Select from the following metrics:
- Indexing Latency
- Indexing Rate
- Merge Latency
- Merge Rate
- Search Latency
- Search Rate
- Size in Bytes

You can also use the time slider at the top of the screen to move forward and backward and observe how shards data changes over time.