# Elastic monitoring cluster

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-monitoring-cluster/271266
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** elastic-stack-monitoring
**Created:** [April 26, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-monitoring-cluster/271266 "2021-04-26T14:23:57Z")
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### Author: ![vee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vee/32/55759_2.png) [@vee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vee)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2021, 2:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-monitoring-cluster/271266/1 "2021-04-26T14:23:57Z")

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Hi, starting to look into setting a dedicated monitoring cluster to capture all monitoring data from elasticsearch nodes. We are at v7.11 and I see the .monitoring indices size is about 3.5GB/day/cluster. Trying to seek some recommendations around how many node cluster would typically suffice to meet the monitoing needs - single node vs multiple node (2 or 3).

Our intent is to setup two such monitoring clusters -  
Prod : send monitoring data from three separate ES clusters  
Non-Prod : send monitoring data from two separate ES clusters

Thanks!

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### 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: [April 27, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-monitoring-cluster/271266/2 "2021-04-27T00:40:43Z")

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Start with 1 and then scale as needed and you should be fine.  
Please note though, that multi-cluster monitoring is a [Gold and above](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions) license level.

This sort of use is ideal for Elastic Cloud, as you can start super small and easily scale and not have the admin overhead.

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### Author: ![vee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vee/32/55759_2.png) [@vee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vee)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-monitoring-cluster/271266/3 "2021-04-27T14:07:23Z")

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Thanks!

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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: [May 25, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-monitoring-cluster/271266/4 "2021-05-25T14:08:15Z")

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