# Compute capacity needed to handle 5000 msg/sec and 20000 flow/min **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [April 30, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compute-capacity-needed-to-handle-5000-msg-sec-and-20000-flow-min/130027 "2018-04-30T12:48:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Suresh\_RS](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/suresh_rs/32/30600_2.png) [@Suresh\_RS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Suresh_RS)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compute-capacity-needed-to-handle-5000-msg-sec-and-20000-flow-min/130027/1 "2018-04-30T12:48:20Z")
We need to collect 5000 msg/sec and and 20000 flow/min from multiple VMs,What will be the compute capacity (CPU,RAM) needed for Logstash and elasticsearch? ---
**Author:** ![polyfractal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/polyfractal/32/48162_2.png) [@polyfractal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/polyfractal)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compute-capacity-needed-to-handle-5000-msg-sec-and-20000-flow-min/130027/2 "2018-04-30T16:02:24Z")
I'm afraid there are too many variables here (hardware configuration, number of nodes, type of data, type of queries, etc etc). You'll just have to run some benchmarks to get a feel for how it behaves with your potential configs. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/compute-capacity-needed-to-handle-5000-msg-sec-and-20000-flow-min/130027/3 "2018-05-28T16:02:24Z")
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