I don't know. In my experience, one big elasticsearch box can cope with a few months of 2-3 MB/sec log data. I guess that the entropy of log file information is

I don't know. In my experience, one big elasticsearch box can cope with a few months of 2-3 MB/sec log data. I guess that the entropy of log file information is quite low and the search engine is being able to take advantage of that and keep its indexes rather small. But gigabits per second... I just don't know.