# How many cpu and memory is filebeat suppose to use? is there any benchmark about it?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-cpu-and-memory-is-filebeat-suppose-to-use-is-there-any-benchmark-about-it/210667>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** filebeat\
**Created:** [December 5, 2019, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-cpu-and-memory-is-filebeat-suppose-to-use-is-there-any-benchmark-about-it/210667 "2019-12-05T09:43:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![biello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@biello](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/biello)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-cpu-and-memory-is-filebeat-suppose-to-use-is-there-any-benchmark-about-it/210667/1 "2019-12-05T09:43:56Z")

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I am using filebeat to collect json-format docker logs at the speed of 10MB/s. And I am wondering how many cpu usage is ok in my case. Can you share your throughput and accordingly cpu usage here? That will be very helpful to me, thank you!

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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 2, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-many-cpu-and-memory-is-filebeat-suppose-to-use-is-there-any-benchmark-about-it/210667/2 "2020-01-02T09:44:14Z")

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