# New ELK Setup **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 27, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-elk-setup/310784 "2022-07-27T18:05:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![schandup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@schandup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/schandup)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-elk-setup/310784/1 "2022-07-27T18:05:59Z")
Hi Team, I am a brand new user to elastic community, I'm planning to setup ELK environment in our environment. Before to this I would like to know the different components which we have in ELK observability setup along with the benefits of each component followed by number of servers required, hardware details of each server to build ELK observability setup. --\> Hope ELK setup is of complete Opensource right? Thanks, Schandup ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-elk-setup/310784/2 "2022-07-27T18:19:52Z")
Hi @schandup Welcome to the community... > **[Elastic Observability - A full stack observability platform](https://www.elastic.co/observability)** > > Elastic Observability moves beyond data collection and monitoring to deliver AI powered insights with logs, metrics, traces, and profiling data. I think you should go to the Elastic Website and start with some Video [https://www.elastic.co/learn](https://www.elastic.co/learn) There are many free videos / webinars Free Training [https://www.elastic.co/training/free](https://www.elastic.co/training/free) Documentation > **[Starting with the Elasticsearch Platform and its Solutions | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html)** Installation Guides... > **[Installing the Elastic Stack | Elastic Installation and Upgrade Guide \[8.11\]...](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elastic-stack/current/installing-elastic-stack.html)** > [@schandup](#): > > --\> Hope ELK setup is of complete Opensource right? There is a Free and open - Basic you can use see what is included here There are also commercial features and support if / when needed > **[Subscriptions | Elastic Stack Products & Support | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions)** > > See subscription levels, pricing, and tiered features for on-prem deployments of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic Cloud, and Elastic Cloud Enterprise. Good Luck! Get Started and Come back with Specific Question ---
**Author:** ![schandup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@schandup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/schandup)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-elk-setup/310784/3 "2022-07-28T05:46:45Z")
Hi Stephenb, Can you help me with the hardware requirement to setup ELK Stack. Thanks, Schandup ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-elk-setup/310784/4 "2022-07-28T06:06:35Z")
I would review the specs We use in our cloud and you can find that in the docs here. > **[Elasticsearch Service hardware | Elasticsearch Service Documentation | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-reference-hardware.html)** But there are many factors in cluster design... If you're just learning, I wouldn't overfocus on hardware design.... Unless you're going to go straight from being a newbie to ingesting hundreds of gigabytes a day. Until you know what you're actually trying to accomplish, Search use case, logs use case, security use case recommending any hardware Architecture is premature. ---
**Author:** ![schandup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@schandup](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/schandup)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-elk-setup/310784/5 "2022-07-28T06:28:01Z")
Thanks for the details. What are the minimum hardware specs needed to setup complete ELK stack to monitor end to end application stack including logs, database, applications, infrastructure, security, network, services, RUM & synthetic metrics. All I need If we want to setup ELK stack to monitor the above modules how many servers we need along with the hardware spec details. Thanks, Sravan Kumar ---
**Author:** ![stephenb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/stephenb/32/40856_2.png) [@stephenb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/stephenb)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-elk-setup/310784/6 "2022-07-28T17:52:50Z")
> [@schandup](#): > > What are the minimum hardware specs needed to setup complete ELK stack to monitor end to end application stack including logs, database, applications, infrastructure, security, network, services, RUM & synthetic metrics. No one can answer that... You basically just said ... design my whole system... for everything but without any details 🙂 What people normally do is set up a small cluster (1 or 3 small to medium data nodes) and then POC a set of the data and benchmark and work from there. If you want to learn would focus on setting up a small 3 node cluster... and work from there. Small Data Nodes... lets say 2cpu 8GB RAM 128GB SSD Disk Medium Data Nodes lets say 4cpu 32GB RAM 500GB SSD Disk In the end your Cluster Architecture will Depend on Overall Volume / Rate of Data you ingest The complexity of the Data How much Real Time Analytics and Queries And how long you retain the data Good Luck! Dive in and Get Started! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-elk-setup/310784/7 "2022-08-25T17:53:51Z")
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