# Setup a elastic cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-a-elastic-cluster/339741>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 1, 2023, 3:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-a-elastic-cluster/339741 "2023-08-01T03:47:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![sholzhauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sholzhauer/32/110282_2.png) [@sholzhauer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sholzhauer)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/setup-a-elastic-cluster/339741/2 "2023-08-01T09:14:47Z")

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Hi,

You are not the first (and probably not the last) to raise this question, however asking it  
is a lot less difficult as answering. Sizing of elastic stack is dependent on a lot of variables, for example:

- data throughput
- retention requirements
- how fast you want results to be
- which usecases are used (e.g. observability, security, enterprise search, etc).

To name a few of the variables you have to think of.

Some resources which should help you on the way to start answering your question:

1. [Benchmarking and sizing your Elasticsearch cluster for logs and metrics](https://www.elastic.co/blog/benchmarking-and-sizing-your-elasticsearch-cluster-for-logs-and-metrics)
2. [Sizing Elasticsearch  
 ](https://www.elastic.co/blog/found-sizing-elasticsearch)
3. [Sizing the Elastic Stack for Security Use Cases](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnwnaB7OMIA)

It helps the community if you go through this and use it to ask more specific questions and context.

I hope this helps you on your way.

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