Choosing the right set of hardware

The important metric to understand while installing Elastic Stack, is to know how much memory will be consumed, disk space required, maintaining proper I/O requests, how much CPU or cores are required for resource consumption, and the network among the systems. Whenever we install Elastic Stack there is always confusion on the amount of resources used by each of the component. Let us try to break the resources requirement based on the various components.

Memory

It is one of the most important parameters that affect the performance of an application. If the memory provided is lower than expected, then the application can stop, fail, or show an Out of Memory error.

Memory sizing is important as memory is used by the ...

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