# Advice and tutorial recommendation for creating an ES cluster **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 19, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-and-tutorial-recommendation-for-creating-an-es-cluster/50403 "2016-05-19T06:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nateuni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nateuni/32/8512_2.png) [@nateuni](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nateuni)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-and-tutorial-recommendation-for-creating-an-es-cluster/50403/1 "2016-05-19T06:00:32Z")
I have this pipeline setup for my thesis: Webserver+rsyslog-\>Kafka (3 servers: 1xZK, 2xKafka Brokers)-\>Logstash (2 servers: Both acting as indexers)-\>ES+Kibana (both on the one server). Everything running on AWS. Currently handling 6500 messages / sec. From what I read and from my experiments the suggested bottleneck is with ES. I was reading a tutorial the other day that stated to set up 3 master nodes, 2 client nodes, 2 data nodes etc but I could not get it working. I don't need any fallback or scaling. my sole focus is on just increasing throughput. What is the simplest cluster I can make that will increase the messages / second that ES can handle? And could someone recommend a tutorial that helps walk me through the process? Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-and-tutorial-recommendation-for-creating-an-es-cluster/50403/2 "2016-05-23T03:46:33Z")
Just have 3 nodes that are master+data, then just set [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/master/important-configuration-changes.html#unicast](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/master/important-configuration-changes.html#unicast) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/advice-and-tutorial-recommendation-for-creating-an-es-cluster/50403/3 "2017-07-05T22:49:54Z")