# Performance consideration for search cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-consideration-for-search-cluster/225240>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 26, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-consideration-for-search-cluster/225240 "2020-03-26T16:35:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Norman\_Khine](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/norman_khine/32/3342_2.png) [@Norman\_Khine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Norman_Khine)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-consideration-for-search-cluster/225240/1 "2020-03-26T16:35:54Z")

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Hello,  
We have a large catalogue of about 120,000,000 documents and we want to release these for general public consumption from different devices.

What kind of things would I need to consider when designing the cluster purely for search at these volumes?

Would reverse proxy have any performance implications, if this is added?

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42650740/nginx-as-elasticsearch-loadbalancer-has-low-performance>

Any advise is much appreciated

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-consideration-for-search-cluster/225240/2 "2020-03-26T16:52:39Z")

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Depending on the load, I'd may be increase the number of replicas and may be the number of nodes to be able to deal with the search requests.

Having a coordinator node in front of the cluster would also help may be.

BTW did you look at [cloud.elastic.co](http://cloud.elastic.co) for this?

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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:** [April 23, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-consideration-for-search-cluster/225240/3 "2020-04-23T16:52:45Z")

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