# Configuration Informations

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-informations/148125>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 11, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-informations/148125 "2018-09-11T12:54:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sup3race](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sup3race/32/14739_2.png) [@sup3race](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sup3race)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-informations/148125/1 "2018-09-11T12:54:22Z")

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Hello guys, I have an application that collects twits / reddit posts and other kind of informations. let's say 1000 documents are around 1mb of size.  
I recently bought 2 servers with the following specs:  
CPU: Intel® Xeon® Gold 6140 (2 dedicated cores)  
RAM: 8 GB DDR4 RAM (ECC)  
HDD: 320 GB SAS

I need some help for the configuration part like how many shards, replicas, how to scale, how many master nodes and similar stuff. I will need to install kibana on one of those servers to monitor constantly the documents. This dashboard will be accessed by many other memebrs too.  
I would also appreciate to know if I need to buy more servers or or a server only for kibana etc etc...  
Also, do I need to use logstash or filebeat to have an atomatic queue or should I send the data directly to elastic?

Thank you so much!

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**Author:** ![Fisayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Fisayo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Fisayo)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-informations/148125/2 "2018-09-11T13:32:25Z")

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We use elastic search for [terawork](https://www.terawork.com), and it's really saved us time with our searches.

It's faster than using sql, and it's easier to tweak searching criteria.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2018, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-informations/148125/3 "2018-10-09T13:32:34Z")

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