diff --git a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/action/admin/indices/refresh/RefreshRemoteTranslogFilesIT.java b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/action/admin/indices/refresh/RefreshRemoteTranslogFilesIT.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..04eab9dcb2284
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/action/admin/indices/refresh/RefreshRemoteTranslogFilesIT.java
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+ *
+ * The OpenSearch Contributors require contributions made to
+ * this file be licensed under the Apache-2.0 license or a
+ * compatible open source license.
+ */
+
+package org.opensearch.action.admin.indices.refresh;
+
+import org.opensearch.action.admin.cluster.settings.ClusterUpdateSettingsRequest;
+import org.opensearch.common.settings.Settings;
+import org.opensearch.indices.RemoteStoreSettings;
+import org.opensearch.remotestore.RemoteStoreBaseIntegTestCase;
+import org.opensearch.test.OpenSearchIntegTestCase;
+
+import static org.opensearch.test.hamcrest.OpenSearchAssertions.assertAcked;
+
+@OpenSearchIntegTestCase.ClusterScope(scope = OpenSearchIntegTestCase.Scope.TEST, numDataNodes = 0)
+public class RefreshRemoteTranslogFilesIT extends RemoteStoreBaseIntegTestCase {
+
+    protected final String INDEX_NAME = "remote-store-test-idx-1";
+
+    public void testRefreshOnTooManyRemoteTranslogFiles() throws Exception {
+
+        internalCluster().startClusterManagerOnlyNode();
+        internalCluster().startDataOnlyNodes(1).get(0);
+        createIndex(INDEX_NAME, remoteStoreIndexSettings(0, 10000L, -1));
+        ensureGreen(INDEX_NAME);
+
+        ClusterUpdateSettingsRequest updateSettingsRequest = new ClusterUpdateSettingsRequest();
+        updateSettingsRequest.persistentSettings(
+            Settings.builder().put(RemoteStoreSettings.CLUSTER_REMOTE_MAX_REFERENCED_TRANSLOG_FILES.getKey(), "5")
+        );
+        assertAcked(client().admin().cluster().updateSettings(updateSettingsRequest).actionGet());
+
+        // indexing 35 documents (7 bulk requests), which should trigger refresh, and hence number of documents(searchable) should be 35.
+        // Here refresh will be triggered on 6th and 7th bulk request. One extra since translogs will be marked
+        // unreferenced after 6th refresh completes and will be trimmed on 7th bulk request call.
+        for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++) {
+            indexBulk(INDEX_NAME, 5);
+        }
+
+        // refresh will not trigger here, hence total searchable documents will be 35 (not 40)
+        indexBulk(INDEX_NAME, 5);
+
+        long currentDocCount = client().prepareSearch(INDEX_NAME).setSize(0).get().getHits().getTotalHits().value;
+        assertEquals(35, currentDocCount);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotemigration/MigrationBaseTestCase.java b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotemigration/MigrationBaseTestCase.java
index 0c35f91121059..f34d3cf1f3ad9 100644
--- a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotemigration/MigrationBaseTestCase.java
+++ b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/remotemigration/MigrationBaseTestCase.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ public class MigrationBaseTestCase extends OpenSearchIntegTestCase {
 
     protected Path segmentRepoPath;
     protected Path translogRepoPath;
-    boolean addRemote = false;
+    protected boolean addRemote = false;
     Settings extraSettings = Settings.EMPTY;
 
     private final List<String> documentKeys = List.of(
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
index 9d763c970c3e7..575089eb2d904 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/ClusterSettings.java
@@ -728,7 +728,8 @@ public void apply(Settings value, Settings current, Settings previous) {
 
                 RemoteStoreSettings.CLUSTER_REMOTE_INDEX_SEGMENT_METADATA_RETENTION_MAX_COUNT_SETTING,
                 RemoteStoreSettings.CLUSTER_REMOTE_TRANSLOG_BUFFER_INTERVAL_SETTING,
-                RemoteStoreSettings.CLUSTER_REMOTE_TRANSLOG_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT_SETTING
+                RemoteStoreSettings.CLUSTER_REMOTE_TRANSLOG_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT_SETTING,
+                RemoteStoreSettings.CLUSTER_REMOTE_MAX_REFERENCED_TRANSLOG_FILES
             )
         )
     );
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/IndexScopedSettings.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/IndexScopedSettings.java
index 29ba5d7504e26..c6c312d6b6eea 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/IndexScopedSettings.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/common/settings/IndexScopedSettings.java
@@ -237,8 +237,6 @@ public final class IndexScopedSettings extends AbstractScopedSettings {
                 // Settings for concurrent segment search
                 IndexSettings.INDEX_CONCURRENT_SEGMENT_SEARCH_SETTING,
 
-                IndexSettings.INDEX_MAX_UNCOMMITTED_TRANSLOG_FILES,
-
                 // validate that built-in similarities don't get redefined
                 Setting.groupSetting("index.similarity.", (s) -> {
                     Map<String, Settings> groups = s.getAsGroups();
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexSettings.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexSettings.java
index 0d5dd1a303e92..82875564c1c07 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexSettings.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/IndexSettings.java
@@ -719,19 +719,6 @@ public static IndexMergePolicy fromString(String text) {
         Property.IndexScope
     );
 
-    /**
-     * Index setting describing the maximum number of uncommitted translog files at a time.
-     * If breached the shard will be Refreshed, this is to control large number of tranlog files
-     * downloads during recovery.
-     */
-    public static final Setting<Integer> INDEX_MAX_UNCOMMITTED_TRANSLOG_FILES = Setting.intSetting(
-        "index.max_uncommitted_translog_files",
-        300,
-        1,
-        Property.Dynamic,
-        Property.IndexScope
-    );
-
     private final Index index;
     private final Version version;
     private final Logger logger;
@@ -815,7 +802,6 @@ private void setRetentionLeaseMillis(final TimeValue retentionLease) {
     private volatile long mappingTotalFieldsLimit;
     private volatile long mappingDepthLimit;
     private volatile long mappingFieldNameLengthLimit;
-    private volatile int maxUncommittedTranslogFiles;
 
     /**
      * The maximum number of refresh listeners allows on this shard.
@@ -994,7 +980,6 @@ public IndexSettings(final IndexMetadata indexMetadata, final Settings nodeSetti
         setMergeOnFlushPolicy(scopedSettings.get(INDEX_MERGE_ON_FLUSH_POLICY));
         checkPendingFlushEnabled = scopedSettings.get(INDEX_CHECK_PENDING_FLUSH_ENABLED);
         defaultSearchPipeline = scopedSettings.get(DEFAULT_SEARCH_PIPELINE);
-        maxUncommittedTranslogFiles = scopedSettings.get(INDEX_MAX_UNCOMMITTED_TRANSLOG_FILES);
         /* There was unintentional breaking change got introduced with [OpenSearch-6424](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/6424) (version 2.7).
          * For indices created prior version (prior to 2.7) which has IndexSort type, they used to type cast the SortField.Type
          * to higher bytes size like integer to long. This behavior was changed from OpenSearch 2.7 version not to
@@ -1119,15 +1104,6 @@ public IndexSettings(final IndexMetadata indexMetadata, final Settings nodeSetti
             INDEX_DOC_ID_FUZZY_SET_FALSE_POSITIVE_PROBABILITY_SETTING,
             this::setDocIdFuzzySetFalsePositiveProbability
         );
-        scopedSettings.addSettingsUpdateConsumer(INDEX_MAX_UNCOMMITTED_TRANSLOG_FILES, this::setMaxUncommittedTranslogFiles);
-    }
-
-    private void setMaxUncommittedTranslogFiles(int maxUncommittedTranslogFiles) {
-        this.maxUncommittedTranslogFiles = maxUncommittedTranslogFiles;
-    }
-
-    public int getMaxUncommittedTranslogFiles() {
-        return maxUncommittedTranslogFiles;
     }
 
     private void setSearchIdleAfter(TimeValue searchIdleAfter) {
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShard.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShard.java
index 99e0b750b231a..4882539510f26 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShard.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexShard.java
@@ -4489,11 +4489,11 @@ public Durability getTranslogDurability() {
      * threshold count determined by {@code index.translog.max_uncommitted_files_threshold}
      * @return {@code true} if the shard should be Refreshed
      */
-    boolean shouldRefreshShard() {
+    public boolean shouldRefreshShard() {
         final Engine engine = getEngineOrNull();
         if (engine != null) {
             try {
-                return engine.translogManager().shouldRefreshShard(indexSettings.getMaxUncommittedTranslogFiles());
+                return engine.translogManager().shouldRefreshShard();
             } catch (final AlreadyClosedException e) {
                 // we are already closed, no need to Refresh
             }
@@ -4570,9 +4570,8 @@ public void onAfter() {
                 }
             }
         } else if (shouldRefreshShard() && isRefreshRunning.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
-
             if (shouldRefreshShard()) {
-                logger.info("submitting async Refresh request");
+                logger.debug("submitting async Refresh request");
                 final AbstractRunnable _refresh = new AbstractRunnable() {
                     @Override
                     public void onFailure(Exception e) {
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/InternalTranslogManager.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/InternalTranslogManager.java
index 34044b45bf859..2d90c59d8dd1f 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/InternalTranslogManager.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/InternalTranslogManager.java
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ public void close() throws IOException {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public boolean shouldRefreshShard(int maxUncommittedTranslogFilesThreshold) {
-        return getTranslog(true).shouldRefreshShard(maxUncommittedTranslogFilesThreshold);
+    public boolean shouldRefreshShard() {
+        return getTranslog(true).shouldRefreshShard();
     }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/NoOpTranslogManager.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/NoOpTranslogManager.java
index d918b0edca120..b4a78baea51bd 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/NoOpTranslogManager.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/NoOpTranslogManager.java
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ public Translog.TranslogGeneration getTranslogGeneration() {
     }
 
     @Override
-    public boolean shouldRefreshShard(int maxUncommittedTranslogFilesThreshold) {
+    public boolean shouldRefreshShard() {
         return false;
     }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/RemoteFsTranslog.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/RemoteFsTranslog.java
index 6154cb3454699..4f38363d6a353 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/RemoteFsTranslog.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/RemoteFsTranslog.java
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ int availablePermits() {
      * @return {@code true} if the shard should be Refreshed
      */
     @Override
-    public boolean shouldRefreshShard(int maxUncommittedTranslogFilesThreshold) {
-        return readers.size() > maxUncommittedTranslogFilesThreshold;
+    public boolean shouldRefreshShard() {
+        return readers.size() >= translogTransferManager.getMaxRemoteReferencedTranslogFilesSettings();
     }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/Translog.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/Translog.java
index ced8ebc450cfa..f4468a0b0ad04 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/Translog.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/Translog.java
@@ -2059,7 +2059,7 @@ public long getMinUnreferencedSeqNoInSegments(long minUnrefCheckpointInLastCommi
      *
      * @return {@code true} if the shard should be Refreshed
      */
-    public boolean shouldRefreshShard(int maxUncommittedTranslogFilesThreshold) {
+    public boolean shouldRefreshShard() {
         return false;
     }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/TranslogManager.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/TranslogManager.java
index 25d9397287d91..d3e9cbbf95dec 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/TranslogManager.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/TranslogManager.java
@@ -143,5 +143,5 @@ public interface TranslogManager {
 
     Translog.TranslogGeneration getTranslogGeneration();
 
-    boolean shouldRefreshShard(int maxUncommittedTranslogFilesThreshold);
+    boolean shouldRefreshShard();
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/transfer/TranslogTransferManager.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/transfer/TranslogTransferManager.java
index 1087244623b87..f13cf6c06805d 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/transfer/TranslogTransferManager.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/translog/transfer/TranslogTransferManager.java
@@ -585,4 +585,8 @@ public void onFailure(Exception e) {
             throw e;
         }
     }
+
+    public int getMaxRemoteReferencedTranslogFilesSettings() {
+        return this.remoteStoreSettings.getMaxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles();
+    }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/indices/RemoteStoreSettings.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/indices/RemoteStoreSettings.java
index 7f2121093f8e8..c545af9008fc8 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/indices/RemoteStoreSettings.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/indices/RemoteStoreSettings.java
@@ -65,9 +65,21 @@ public class RemoteStoreSettings {
         Property.Dynamic
     );
 
+    /**
+     * Controls the maximum referenced remote translog files. If breached the shard will be Refreshed.
+     */
+    public static final Setting<Integer> CLUSTER_REMOTE_MAX_REFERENCED_TRANSLOG_FILES = Setting.intSetting(
+        "cluster.remote_store.max_referenced_translog_files",
+        300,
+        1,
+        Property.Dynamic,
+        Property.NodeScope
+    );
+
     private volatile TimeValue clusterRemoteTranslogBufferInterval;
     private volatile int minRemoteSegmentMetadataFiles;
     private volatile TimeValue clusterRemoteTranslogTransferTimeout;
+    private volatile int maxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles;
 
     public RemoteStoreSettings(Settings settings, ClusterSettings clusterSettings) {
         this.clusterRemoteTranslogBufferInterval = CLUSTER_REMOTE_TRANSLOG_BUFFER_INTERVAL_SETTING.get(settings);
@@ -87,6 +99,9 @@ public RemoteStoreSettings(Settings settings, ClusterSettings clusterSettings) {
             CLUSTER_REMOTE_TRANSLOG_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT_SETTING,
             this::setClusterRemoteTranslogTransferTimeout
         );
+
+        maxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles = CLUSTER_REMOTE_MAX_REFERENCED_TRANSLOG_FILES.get(settings);
+        clusterSettings.addSettingsUpdateConsumer(CLUSTER_REMOTE_MAX_REFERENCED_TRANSLOG_FILES, this::setMaxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles);
     }
 
     public TimeValue getClusterRemoteTranslogBufferInterval() {
@@ -112,4 +127,12 @@ public TimeValue getClusterRemoteTranslogTransferTimeout() {
     private void setClusterRemoteTranslogTransferTimeout(TimeValue clusterRemoteTranslogTransferTimeout) {
         this.clusterRemoteTranslogTransferTimeout = clusterRemoteTranslogTransferTimeout;
     }
+
+    public int getMaxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles() {
+        return maxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles;
+    }
+
+    private void setMaxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles(int maxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles) {
+        this.maxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles = maxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/indices/RemoteStoreSettingsDynamicUpdateTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/indices/RemoteStoreSettingsDynamicUpdateTests.java
index 8a77d97f88d67..54d539df04395 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/indices/RemoteStoreSettingsDynamicUpdateTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/indices/RemoteStoreSettingsDynamicUpdateTests.java
@@ -96,4 +96,24 @@ public void testClusterRemoteTranslogTransferTimeout() {
         );
         assertEquals(TimeValue.timeValueSeconds(40), remoteStoreSettings.getClusterRemoteTranslogTransferTimeout());
     }
+
+    public void testMaxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles() {
+        // Test default value
+        assertEquals(300, remoteStoreSettings.getMaxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles());
+
+        // Test override with valid value
+        clusterSettings.applySettings(
+            Settings.builder().put(RemoteStoreSettings.CLUSTER_REMOTE_MAX_REFERENCED_TRANSLOG_FILES.getKey(), "100").build()
+        );
+        assertEquals(100, remoteStoreSettings.getMaxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles());
+
+        // Test override with value less than minimum
+        assertThrows(
+            IllegalArgumentException.class,
+            () -> clusterSettings.applySettings(
+                Settings.builder().put(RemoteStoreSettings.CLUSTER_REMOTE_MAX_REFERENCED_TRANSLOG_FILES.getKey(), "0").build()
+            )
+        );
+        assertEquals(100, remoteStoreSettings.getMaxRemoteReferencedTranslogFiles());
+    }
 }