Operators
Indexer Usage Estimates

Technical estimates

AWS services

AWS service estimates:

  • ECS - Fargate

    Service NameInstancesCPUMemory
    Comlink2024gb
    Ender148gb
    Roundtable524gb
    Socks20416gb
    Vulcan848gb
  • RDS - Postgres Database

    • Primary - db.m6g.16xlarge
    • Replica - 1 db.m6g.16xlarge
  • EC2

    • Devboxes - t2.medium (1 instance per engineer)
  • ElastiCache Redis

    • 1 primary and 1 replica with cache.r6g.large
  • EC2 ELB - Loadbalancer

    • 250,000 LCU-Hrs/mo
  • Cloudwatch - Logs

    • ~20,000 GB of logs ingested/mo
    • ~100,000,000 Metrics requested using GetMetricData API/mo
  • Secret Manager

    • ~100 secrets
    • ~250,000 API requests

Other services

  • Terraform Cloud — deploying to cloud
    • ~4 engineers
  • Bugsnag — bug awareness
    • Standard plan
  • Datadog — metrics and monitoring
    • ~6000 custom metrics / hour
  • PagerDuty — alerting
    • ~4 engineers
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