# Configuration of ELK Stack

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-elk-stack/185571>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 13, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-elk-stack/185571 "2019-06-13T08:13:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vladpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@Vladpov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vladpov)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 8:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-elk-stack/185571/1 "2019-06-13T08:13:05Z")

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Hello everyone, me and my collegue are trying to run ELK STACK for managing logs from three maybe four servers with approximately 120GB logs per day and more.

I was wondering if someone could help us with hardware rquirements needed for manage that amount of logs and suggest some scalable solution for storing the data. Also any hints about how to run the ELK Stack are welcome.

Every help would be really appreciated.

Thank you 🙂

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-elk-stack/185571/2 "2019-06-13T09:14:12Z")

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Welcome!

May I suggest you look at the following resources about sizing:

[https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2016/sf/quantitative-cluster-sizing](https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2016/sf/quantitative-cluster-sizing)

> **[How many shards should I have in my Elasticsearch cluster?](https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-many-shards-should-i-have-in-my-elasticsearch-cluster)**
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> If you are looking for practical guidelines around how many indices and shards to have in your cluster, this blog post will help you avoid common pitfalls.

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/vR0XKDq4TGa77z

And [https://www.elastic.co/webinars/using-rally-to-get-your-elasticsearch-cluster-size-right](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/using-rally-to-get-your-elasticsearch-cluster-size-right)

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**Author:** ![Vladpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@Vladpov](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Vladpov)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-elk-stack/185571/3 "2019-06-13T12:36:27Z")

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If I understand it correctly for our purpose it could look like one Elasticsearch cluster with three nodes (one node per server)?

How many could we need per node in this amount of logs? 😄

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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:** [July 11, 2019, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-elk-stack/185571/4 "2019-07-11T12:36:28Z")

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