# Quick poll: # of ES instances/box in your production?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quick-poll-of-es-instances-box-in-your-production/6625>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 7, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quick-poll-of-es-instances-box-in-your-production/6625 "2012-02-07T18:29:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![otisg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/otisg/32/492_2.png) [@otisg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/otisg)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quick-poll-of-es-instances-box-in-your-production/6625/1 "2012-02-07T18:29:17Z")

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Hi,

Quick ES poll about the (max) number of ES instances/JVMs you run on  
your ES production servers:

[http://blog.sematext.com/2012/02/07/elasticsearch-poll/](http://blog.sematext.com/2012/02/07/elasticsearch-poll/)

We are doing some work with/for ES, and we need this feedback to make  
some technical decisions. Your input is greatly appreciated!

## Thanks, Otis

> **[Sematext – Solr / Elasticsearch Experts – Search & Big Data Analytics](https://sematext.com/)**
>
> Building innovative Cloud and On Premise solutions for performance monitoring, alerting and anomaly detection (SPM), and log management and analytics (Logsene)

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/quick-poll-of-es-instances-box-in-your-production/6625/2 "2017-07-06T03:40:13Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 3:40am UTC