# ES sizing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-sizing/112167>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 18, 2017, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-sizing/112167 "2017-12-18T07:36:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![dharmjit\_singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@dharmjit\_singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dharmjit_singh)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 7:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-sizing/112167/1 "2017-12-18T07:36:30Z")

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Hi All,

I know that proper sizing is an experimental process, but does ES provides some basic sizing matrix based on storage/performance etc .

Thanks in advance.

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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:** [December 18, 2017, 7:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-sizing/112167/2 "2017-12-18T07:55:05Z")

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No. We often recommend keeping shards under 20 to 50gb.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-sizing/112167/3 "2017-12-18T07:57:52Z")

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It depends a lot on the use case, and query heavy search use cases are sized differently from indexing intense logging use cases.

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**Author:** ![dharmjit\_singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@dharmjit\_singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dharmjit_singh)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-sizing/112167/4 "2017-12-18T10:10:09Z")

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Thanks,

Do we have some guide/documentation for the same.

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-sizing/112167/5 "2017-12-18T10:12:50Z")

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I think this [Elastic{ON} video](https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2016/sf/quantitative-cluster-sizing) could be a good starting point.

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**Author:** ![dharmjit\_singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@dharmjit\_singh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dharmjit_singh)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-sizing/112167/6 "2017-12-18T10:27:27Z")

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Thanks, Really appreciate that 🙂

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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:** [January 15, 2018, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-sizing/112167/7 "2018-01-15T10:27:32Z")

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