# How to size my future production architecture **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Community and Ecosystem\ **Created:** [June 17, 2016, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-size-my-future-production-architecture/53116 "2016-06-17T08:08:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Clement\_Ros](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/clement_ros/32/6198_2.png) [@Clement\_Ros](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clement_Ros)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-size-my-future-production-architecture/53116/1 "2016-06-17T08:08:50Z")
Hi everybody, I'm an IT student, i'm working for a company. The subject of my internship is over 3 years to put in place an architecture to log , analyze, and visualize the events of this company. So I set up a POC , which I harvest the logs of a dozen servers. I do not have a lot of financial resources to implement this solution. So I installed the ELK stack of 3 servers. ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-size-my-future-production-architecture/53116/2 "2016-06-18T01:33:58Z")
There's a number of other threads on this and the answer is the same. You need to know how much data you are dealing with. Then run benchmarks on a single server to see how much data it can cope with. And extrapolate from that so you know how many nodes you may need for that given data set. ---
**Author:** ![Clement\_Ros](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/clement_ros/32/6198_2.png) [@Clement\_Ros](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clement_Ros)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2016, 8:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-size-my-future-production-architecture/53116/3 "2016-06-20T08:32:29Z")
Hi, thank you for the answer I will try to do that. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-size-my-future-production-architecture/53116/4 "2017-07-06T13:44:05Z")