# Tools and Steps to Find Out Performance Baseline of ES

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tools-and-steps-to-find-out-performance-baseline-of-es/47841>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 20, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tools-and-steps-to-find-out-performance-baseline-of-es/47841 "2016-04-20T02:06:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@gringo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gringo)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tools-and-steps-to-find-out-performance-baseline-of-es/47841/1 "2016-04-20T02:06:04Z")

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I need to answer the following question

- give a fix amount of RAM and CPU cores, how many documents in indices can be left open without start to see degrading of Elasticsearch server performance for searching and injesting data.
- any recommended tools to achieve the previous mentioned?

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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, 10:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tools-and-steps-to-find-out-performance-baseline-of-es/47841/2 "2017-07-05T22:57:52Z")

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