The influxdb documentation recommends that you need to chose a specific shard group duration that matches your retention policy e.g. 1 day RP should have 1 hour shard group duration. Link to the docs:
https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1.4/concepts/schema_and_data_layout/#shard-group-duration-management

This parameter is missing from the client. I used the 4.1.1 version but this problem is still in 5.0.0