I was very intrigued until I poked around the github repos and noticed the server specs Etsy was using to analyze the 250k metrics. Oculus recommended setup (f

I was very intrigued until I poked around the github repos and noticed the server specs Etsy was using to analyze the 250k metrics. Oculus recommended setup (found at https://github.com/etsy/oculus https://github.com/etsy/oculus): * ElasticSearch * At least 8GB RAM * Quad Core Xeon 5620 CPU or comparable * 1GB disk space * two ElasticSearch servers in separate clusters * a cluster of Worker boxes running Resque * worker master runs redis * additional resque worker boxes (and potentially slaves) * At least 12GB RAM * Quad Core Xeon 5620 CPU or comparable * 1GB disk space It'd be nice if there was a more established baseline set of server specs to get up and running. While many of us aspire to be at Etsy level monitoring, we're just not there.