There are many ways to size a Spotfire deployment. You can change and optimize your sizing depending on your specific needs. For example, the sizing depends on which services you use, the number and size of analyses, the type, frequency and complexity of data function calculations, the amount of data, the number of users, the network throughput, and so on.

The Spotfire platform is composed of several specialized services. You can deploy multiple instances of each Spotfire service on each node, and you can size each of the Spotfire nodes separately.

On top of that, you can enable automatic scaling using the Cloud Deployment Kit for Spotfire or other external tools, based on default or custom metrics.

If you have no previous resource usage data or estimations, a common approach is to start with the minimum recommended hardware System Requirements, and then add more capacity as needed.

The topics in this section provide general guidelines and conditions to consider for scaling the Spotfire environment.