Documentation Grafana Enterprise Traces Set up Hardware requirements

GET hardware requirements

This page outlines the current hardware requirements for running Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET). Grafana Labs reserves the right to mark a support issue as ‘unresolvable’ if these requirements are not followed. Refer to the Grafana Labs Enterprise Support SLA for more details.

CPU and memory

GET should be deployed on machines with a 1:4 ratio of CPU to memory. For every CPU core, you should have 4GB of memory.

Grafana Labs recommends deploying GET onto machines with at least 16 CPU cores and 64GB of memory. All the nodes in the Kubernetes cluster running GET should be of the same type.

Network

All components of GET require fast network access. Nodes the software runs on should be connected by 10 gigabit/second or faster network connection speed.

Storage

GET requires fast storage to run. Any storage solutions you use have to have adequate performance. Object storage (for example AWS S3 buckets, Google Cloud GCS or Microsoft Azure Storage) buckets or blobs are used to persist trace data for the required retention period. Your object storage should be large enough to contain 30 days worth of data, the default block retention for GET.

However, various components of GET (for example, the ingester) also require fast, persistent block storage to be available to the host machine. For example, in the case of the ingester component, all incoming data is sent to a write-ahead log (WAL) to aggregate trace data into blocks before storing them in object storage, and to help withstand unexpected node termination.

For every deployment, you need both object and block storage. Block storage must be memory-state storage, like SSD or NVMEs. Hard drive (platter-based) disk storage is not supported.

The supported configurations for AWS, GCP, and Azure are in the following sections.

Block storage

Object storage

GET requires object storage for configuration storage, as well as long-term data storage. Amazon AWS S3, GCP GCS, and Azure Blob storage are the only supported object stores for running GET.