# ELK sizing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-sizing/264292>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 15, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-sizing/264292 "2021-02-15T10:00:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Shalinicts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shalinicts/32/81251_2.png) [@Shalinicts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shalinicts)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-sizing/264292/1 "2021-02-15T10:00:24Z")

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What is the recommendation to aggregate 100GB log data per day using ELK stack(open source)  
1 master node , 2 data node(1 TB disk space) is good approach?

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**Author:** ![ylasri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ylasri/32/86120_2.png) [@ylasri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ylasri)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-sizing/264292/2 "2021-02-15T10:09:46Z")

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Read this blog where you will find all answers to your questions

> **[Benchmarking and sizing your Elasticsearch cluster for logs and metrics](https://www.elastic.co/fr/blog/benchmarking-and-sizing-your-elasticsearch-cluster-for-logs-and-metrics)**
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> Elasticsearch can be optimized for any use case. In this post, learn how to size and benchmark your Elastic Stack deployment for logs and metrics observability.

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**Author:** ![Shalinicts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shalinicts/32/81251_2.png) [@Shalinicts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shalinicts)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-sizing/264292/3 "2021-02-15T10:30:13Z")

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Thanks Yasine.The link was useful.  
Could you please let me know on deciding data / master nodes

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**Author:** ![ylasri](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ylasri/32/86120_2.png) [@ylasri](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ylasri)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-sizing/264292/4 "2021-02-15T10:31:47Z")

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Go with the 3 nodes as master & data

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**Author:** ![Shalinicts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shalinicts/32/81251_2.png) [@Shalinicts](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shalinicts)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-sizing/264292/5 "2021-02-15T10:33:00Z")

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Thank you!!

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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 15, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-sizing/264292/6 "2021-03-15T10:33:52Z")

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