July 2016
Intermediate to advanced
180 pages
3h 16m
English
The requirements for your cluster—the number of nodes and the hardware specifications of each node—depend on several factors, including the following:
There's no one size fits all formula to determine cluster requirements for a given Elasticsearch use case. The best approach is to meticulously test performance while changing variables, such as shard size, the number of nodes in the cluster, and hardware configurations until an optimal solution is found. This section focuses on high-level guidelines to consider when configuring your cluster.
It's a good idea to run at least three nodes in a production environment ...
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