# Elasticsearch node disk space?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174 "2020-07-22T11:07:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Divit\_Sharma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/divit_sharma/32/32348_2.png) [@Divit\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Divit_Sharma)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 11:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174/1 "2020-07-22T11:07:44Z")

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How much disk space should be given to :

1. Dedicated Client Node
2. Dedicated Kibana Node

Will 10gb suffice?

Currently the setup is,

3 Master node, 15 gb ram, 100Gb hard disk  
4 Data node, 62 gb ram, 1tb hard disk  
2 client node + kibana, 62 gb ram, 100 gb hard disk

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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:** [July 22, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174/2 "2020-07-22T11:20:58Z")

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That should be ok. Maybe a little more for Kibana if you do reports/exports.

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**Author:** ![Divit\_Sharma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/divit_sharma/32/32348_2.png) [@Divit\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Divit_Sharma)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174/3 "2020-07-22T12:14:42Z")

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You mean 10Gb right? For kibana, yes it can be increased to 20gb.

Client node shouldn't require more than 10gb right?

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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:** [July 22, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174/4 "2020-07-22T21:18:11Z")

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I doesn't store anything from Elasticsearch other than the cluster state, plus some other temp data, but no, it won't.

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**Author:** ![Divit\_Sharma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/divit_sharma/32/32348_2.png) [@Divit\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Divit_Sharma)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174/5 "2020-07-23T08:28:36Z")

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Thanks for the reply. I would assume dedicated masters also won't need much space. Will 10gb for dedicated masters suffice?

Is there a article to know what kind of data is stored by each type of node?

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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:** [July 23, 2020, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174/6 "2020-07-23T09:20:34Z")

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That should be ok too.

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**Author:** ![defalt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/defalt/32/71379_2.png) [@defalt](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/defalt)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 10:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174/7 "2020-07-23T10:59:02Z")

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> [@Divit\_Sharma](#):
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> Client Node

Just for my personal knowledge, what is a client node? Its not mentioned here: [Node | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-node.html)

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**Author:** ![Divit\_Sharma](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/divit_sharma/32/32348_2.png) [@Divit\_Sharma](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Divit_Sharma)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174/8 "2020-07-31T12:24:27Z")

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Coordinating node. Check the docs.

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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:** [August 28, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-node-disk-space/242174/9 "2020-08-28T12:24:37Z")

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