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Category: Data

April 22nd 2015ELK 2 min read Obviously, production deployments can vary wildly and this means that you could run a legitimate mission-critical log management system with just one server, or several hundred servers.

A typical log message ranges from 200 to 2,000 bytes or more in size and can contain various types of data.

To start making rough estimates of your server requirements you will need to carry out some testing using representative data.

Replication: Elasticsearch is a distributed system that works under the assumption that your hardware will fail and it ensures resiliency to such failures using replication.