# POC with ELK

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poc-with-elk/161640>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 20, 2018, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poc-with-elk/161640 "2018-12-20T08:00:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![hariprasanthdurairaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47774/32.png) [@hariprasanthdurairaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hariprasanthdurairaj)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poc-with-elk/161640/1 "2018-12-20T08:00:28Z")

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Hi ,  
I'm a Performance Tester and new to ELK tool.  
I'm doing POC for my project to install Logstash , ELastic search and Kibana in my local machine .

I couldnt find any details about the Minimum hardware requirements for each of the above packages to start with My POC activity . Please enlighten me

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**Author:** ![Yogesh\_Gaikwad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yogesh_gaikwad/32/27025_2.png) [@Yogesh\_Gaikwad](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Yogesh_Gaikwad)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poc-with-elk/161640/2 "2018-12-20T20:10:34Z")

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Hi @hariprasanthdurairaj,

It depends on what you are going to test with the setup, this is not a definitive answer.  
By default, Elasticsearch tells JVM to use a heap of 1GB.  
You can get some idea from the [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/hardware.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/hardware.html) which is more geared towards production environment  
For trying out ELK, any decent laptop should be able to do that.  
Hope this helps!

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**Author:** ![hariprasanthdurairaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47774/32.png) [@hariprasanthdurairaj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hariprasanthdurairaj)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2018, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poc-with-elk/161640/3 "2018-12-21T12:14:05Z")

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> [@Yogesh\_Gaikwad](#):
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> For trying out ELK, any decent laptop should be able to do that.  
> Hope this helps!

Thanks for you input Yogesh,  
other than logstash , Elasticsearch and Kibana. Do i need to run any scripts or agents in each node to fetch logs to Logstash ?  
if so , we have application developed in .Net, JAVA and PHP. will be agent be same or different for each technology?

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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 18, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/poc-with-elk/161640/4 "2019-01-18T12:14:07Z")

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