Mukesh karkey : What are the recommended hardware requirements for my OpenSearch cluster?

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Hello,

Mukesh Karkey here, Could the community give me some advice? I’m trying to figure out the right hardware for my OpenSearch cluster.Could you also share your real-world experience and suggestions for balancing cost, performance, and reliability for a similar workload?

Mukesh Karkey

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Hi @mukeshkarkey ,

It’s hard to say an exact setup which will be best as this depends on many variables. I would first figure out a few different questions to better determinate a possible solution.

  • How many index’s will it consist of?

  • How big will the nodes be? CPU, Ram, How much heap size? However stuff like this will be better determined with time and usage.

  • How much data will you be storing per index?

  • How long will you retain that data for?

  • What will the data be used for? Searching? Faster indexing?

  • Do you plan to setup the binary, docker, or Kubernetes? O will you be opting for a paid solution?

For now this should be enough to go on.

You can read the below doc to get an idea on shards:

Personally I would start with 1 index and 1 replica not to lose data. I would also look into Data Streams Data streams - OpenSearch Documentation and ISM Index State Management - OpenSearch Documentation to help manage your setup.

Then to better understand what it is you might be after I would read the following doc also - Creating a cluster - OpenSearch Documentation .

Leeroy.