# ES Cluster for Zipkin

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-for-zipkin/237568>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 18, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-for-zipkin/237568 "2020-06-18T05:57:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ishan\_ji\_Gupta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ishan_ji_gupta/32/66914_2.png) [@ishan\_ji\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ishan_ji_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-for-zipkin/237568/1 "2020-06-18T05:57:42Z")

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ElasticSearch recommendation for Zipkin (hardware and cluster).

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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:** [June 18, 2020, 6:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-for-zipkin/237568/2 "2020-06-18T06:35:31Z")

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Welcome!

Is it a question?

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**Author:** ![ishan\_ji\_Gupta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ishan_ji_gupta/32/66914_2.png) [@ishan\_ji\_Gupta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ishan_ji_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-for-zipkin/237568/3 "2020-06-18T06:54:45Z")

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basically i want th best approach on how to setup ES with Zipkin, for better performance. currently i am using single node ES cluster.

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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:** [June 18, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-for-zipkin/237568/4 "2020-06-18T07:43:08Z")

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Does zipkin project give advices? I believe you should follow them maybe ?

But may I suggest you look at the following resources about sizing:

> **[Quantitative Cluster Sizing](https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2016/sf/quantitative-cluster-sizing)**

> **[How many shards should I have in my Elasticsearch cluster?](https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-many-shards-should-i-have-in-my-elasticsearch-cluster)**

> **[Managing your black Friday logs - CloudConf.IT](https://www.slideshare.net/dadoonet/managing-your-black-friday-logs-cloudconfit-93309899)**
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> Monitoring an entire application is not a simple task, but with the right tools it is not a hard task either. However, events like Black Friday can push your a…

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/7/c/7c2edebd5bac194c58a5df87ede6872cb41d61a8.jpeg "Managing your Black Friday Logs, Pablo Musa, Elastic, TechSummit Amsterdam") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilP7tG6tabI)

And [Using Rally to Get Your Elasticsearch Cluster Size Right | Elastic Videos](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/using-rally-to-get-your-elasticsearch-cluster-size-right)

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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:** [July 16, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-cluster-for-zipkin/237568/5 "2020-07-16T07:43:13Z")

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