# Filebeat capacity

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-capacity/274096
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [May 26, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-capacity/274096 "2021-05-26T16:29:36Z")
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### Author: ![AJ18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@AJ18](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AJ18)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 4:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-capacity/274096/1 "2021-05-26T16:29:36Z")

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Hey Team  
Can anyone help me with what the capacity of a filebeat agent is and how much data it can support?

I needed to get an idea of the size of the EC2 instance I should have on my AWS Account, and how many instances might be required?

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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: [June 23, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-capacity/274096/2 "2021-06-23T18:30:06Z")

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