# Elk Stack disadvantages?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-disadvantages/214810>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 13, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-disadvantages/214810 "2020-01-13T11:19:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![juuuhuuu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@juuuhuuu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/juuuhuuu)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-disadvantages/214810/1 "2020-01-13T11:19:39Z")

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Hi 🙂  
Does has Elk Stack on single Node some disadvantages ? If yes, which? (if you have logs about 4 Gb a day)

thank you

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-disadvantages/214810/2 "2020-01-13T13:12:07Z")

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The obvious disadvantage is you have a single point of failure.

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**Author:** ![juuuhuuu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@juuuhuuu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/juuuhuuu)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-disadvantages/214810/3 "2020-01-13T13:55:53Z")

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why it should be this a disadvantage ..? In this case I dont need to send the logs out of the node

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Harwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mark_harwood/32/10538_2.png) [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-disadvantages/214810/4 "2020-01-13T14:02:03Z")

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> [@juuuhuuu](#):
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> why it should be this a disadvantage ..?

Same reason someone might want a reserve parachute.  
If you consider the consequences of a failure are large then you don't rely on a single instance.

Having more than one node also means you can service higher volumes of concurrent queries.

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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:** [February 10, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elk-stack-disadvantages/214810/5 "2020-02-10T14:02:03Z")

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