# The best hardware requirements for a real production environment **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 30, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-best-hardware-requirements-for-a-real-production-environment/210018 "2019-11-30T08:14:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kumar4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kumar4/32/48326_2.png) [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 8:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-best-hardware-requirements-for-a-real-production-environment/210018/1 "2019-11-30T08:14:25Z")
Hello my friends, I want to install ELK in a real environment for collecting data from different sources and I want to know the hardware requirements (CPU, RAM, Storage) i mean the best hardware requirements (not the minimal) so that the platform will be fast and without performance problem, thank you ---
**Author:** ![rugenl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rugenl/32/12887_2.png) [@rugenl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rugenl)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-best-hardware-requirements-for-a-real-production-environment/210018/2 "2019-11-30T15:52:01Z")
Elastic has a webinar on this, I think they eventually get on Youtube. It seems like there was one in the past few weeks. Sizing is the classic [PM Triangle](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56e25f3827d4bd91a219b4fb/1500576828320-T41XMQPUS0ELHX5Z1WEY/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kHRdmYkrSzi0Y0O0ix4fnNtZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpwLsJb16P9ohM8CfzANRMl4z2-BLBD8_LmecUq9a_Lubn02b9TLyFJFxQKt1o0vp_0/COoEcrvWUAAGi5g.png?format=500w), good, fast, cheap, you get 2 of the 3. You need some idea of ingest rate and volume, search rate, retention and replication. Do you need fast search or more of a logging repository where search can be a little slower. IMHO, most recommendations are over-sized because the price of being wrong is high, either to reputation or cost to grow. Are you using open source version or buying a license? Open is easier to grow, adding licensed nodes costs more than just hardware. ---
**Author:** ![kumar4](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kumar4/32/48326_2.png) [@kumar4](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kumar4)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-best-hardware-requirements-for-a-real-production-environment/210018/3 "2019-11-30T15:57:14Z")
thank you for your response i am using opensource version, can you suggest me any pre req ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/the-best-hardware-requirements-for-a-real-production-environment/210018/4 "2019-12-28T15:57:17Z")
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