# Performance of hearbeat

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-of-hearbeat/190215>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Tags:** heartbeat\
**Created:** [July 12, 2019, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-of-hearbeat/190215 "2019-07-12T10:57:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![ciment](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@ciment](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ciment)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-of-hearbeat/190215/1 "2019-07-12T10:57:48Z")

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Hello,

How many hearbeat instances should I have running to monitoring 40-60 services? All services running in one network. How to setup hearbeats in failover mode? Does exist something?

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrew_cholakian1/32/3612_2.png) [@Andrew\_Cholakian1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andrew_Cholakian1)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-of-hearbeat/190215/2 "2019-07-16T15:38:54Z")

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40-60 is something a single heartbeat can easily handle.

We don't directly have a notion of failover, but you could just configure two heartbeats with the same config on different machines. If one goes down you'll still have the uptime data from the other.

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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:** [August 13, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/performance-of-hearbeat/190215/3 "2019-08-13T15:38:58Z")

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