# Scale numbers that ES stack can handle

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-numbers-that-es-stack-can-handle/29232>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 14, 2015, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-numbers-that-es-stack-can-handle/29232 "2015-09-14T09:51:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![raghav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@raghav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raghav)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-numbers-that-es-stack-can-handle/29232/1 "2015-09-14T09:51:37Z")

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We are planning to use ELK for one of our product. I need scale numbers where ELK supports for a given hardware.

It would be great help if you can give me hardware and scale numbers for ELK production set up

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-numbers-that-es-stack-can-handle/29232/2 "2015-09-14T09:59:00Z")

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This is very vague.

What do you want to do?

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**Author:** ![raghav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@raghav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raghav)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 10:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-numbers-that-es-stack-can-handle/29232/3 "2015-09-14T10:03:54Z")

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I have QA environment, where i want to set it up same for production.

For everyday , my application produces 5 GB log, what would be the min ELK conf required?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 10:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-numbers-that-es-stack-can-handle/29232/4 "2015-09-14T10:36:46Z")

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What are your retention and query requirements?

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**Author:** ![raghav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@raghav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raghav)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-numbers-that-es-stack-can-handle/29232/5 "2015-09-14T11:08:36Z")

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retention is 45 days , we do have dashboards for all exceptions , errors , end 2 end flows.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-numbers-that-es-stack-can-handle/29232/6 "2015-09-14T11:10:49Z")

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Well how much does QA hold? If you know that you can extrapolate out.

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**Author:** ![raghav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@raghav](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raghav)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-numbers-that-es-stack-can-handle/29232/7 "2015-09-14T11:13:14Z")

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hmm..We don't have much data in QA environment, hence we need this.

If you have any standard approximate numbers also would help us.

Thanks in advance

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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 5, 2017, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/scale-numbers-that-es-stack-can-handle/29232/8 "2017-07-05T23:50:29Z")

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