The calculators compute; these guides help you choose their inputs. Each one carries worked numbers from the same engines, links that open each scenario in the calculator, the mistakes that most change the result, and the official sources behind every assumption.
Helps you decide: how many days to keep, in which tier, and how much to provision for growth.
A vendor-neutral six-step method: event rate to GB/day, retention by purpose, measured storage factor, copies, growth vs headroom, tiers.
Helps you decide: whether SmartStore beats classic storage, and how much cache to keep local.
Cache vs retention, hot-bucket replicas, the Enterprise Security 90-day caveat and classic vs SmartStore at 90 and 365 days.
Helps you decide: how many days each tier holds, and what stays on local disk versus snapshots.
How many days per tier, local disk vs snapshot repository, frozen cache and the utilization target — with a one-year layout comparison.
Helps you decide: how much object storage and WAL disk to plan, and what the replication factor really changes.
Object storage, WAL, what the replication factor changes, retention and what Grafana’s published compute profiles do not tell you.
Helps you decide: Amazon OpenSearch Service or self-managed, and how many shards and replicas to plan.
Storage formula, shards, replicas and tiers, with Amazon OpenSearch Service and self-managed OpenSearch kept apart.
Start from the Capacity Planning hub for the common model, or read the methodology.