# Elastic Search and Infra requirement

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-and-infra-requirement/120854>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 21, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-and-infra-requirement/120854 "2018-02-21T13:44:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![sivap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@sivap](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sivap)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-and-infra-requirement/120854/1 "2018-02-21T13:44:28Z")

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Hi Team,

I'm very new to ELK , I want to build elk for 600 GB data per month with 3 months log retention period . Could you please suggest best infrastructure to build ELK (How much CPU and Storage ).

Thanks  
Siva.P

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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:** [February 21, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-and-infra-requirement/120854/2 "2018-02-21T14:01:05Z")

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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)

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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:** [March 21, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-and-infra-requirement/120854/3 "2018-03-21T14:01:10Z")

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