# Graylog vs elasticsearch capacity planning

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graylog-vs-elasticsearch-capacity-planning/86056>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 17, 2017, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graylog-vs-elasticsearch-capacity-planning/86056 "2017-05-17T07:21:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![rusty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f17d59/32.png) [@rusty](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rusty)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 8:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/graylog-vs-elasticsearch-capacity-planning/86056/4 "2017-05-17T08:15:49Z")

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For HA it's better to use different h/w boxes or cloud VMs. If you have one server it's easier to use docker or start multiple ES on different ports (see [link](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-run-multiple-elasticsearch-nodes-on-the-same-machine/67?u=rusty)).

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