How to: Scalable Infrastructure and performance
* [The Authoritative Guide to Elasticsearch Performance Tuning (Part 1)](https://qbox.io/blog/authoritative-guide-elasticsearch-performance-tuning-part-1) [Part 2](https://qbox.io/blog/elasticsearch-performance-tuning-part-2-zen) [Part 3](https://qbox.io/index.php?p=blog/authoritative-guide-elasticsearch-performance-tuning-part-3) 
* [Tuning data ingestion performance for Elasticsearch on Azure](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/guidance-elasticsearch-tuning-data-ingestion-performance/) - and not only for Azure. That's a great article about Elasticsearch Performance testing by example
* [Elasticsearch Indexing Performance Cheatsheet](https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/05/elasticsearch-indexing-performance-cheatsheet/) - when you plan to index large amounts of data in Elasticsearch (by Patrick Peschlow)
* [Elasticsearch for Logging](http://edgeofsanity.net/article/2012/12/26/elasticsearch-for-logging.html) Elasticsearch configuration tips and tricks from Sanity
* [Scaling Elasticsearch to Hundreds of Developers](http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2014/11/scaling-elasticsearch-to-hundreds-of-developers.html) by Joseph Lynch @yelp 
* [10 Elasticsearch metrics to watch](http://radar.oreilly.com/2015/04/10-elasticsearch-metrics-to-watch.html)
* [Understanding Elasticsearch Performance](https://joshrendek.com/2015/11/understanding-elasticsearch-performance/)
* [Our Experience of Creating Large Scale Log Search System Using Elasticsearch](http://www.cubrid.org/blog/dev-platform/our-experience-creating-large-scale-log-search-system-using-elasticsearch/) - topology, separate master, data and search balancers nodes
* :open_file_folder: [Elasticsearch on Azure Guidance](https://github.com/Azure/azure-content/blob/master/articles/guidance/guidance-elasticsearch.md) it is 10% on Azure and 90% of a very valuable general information, tips and tricks about Elasticsearch
* [How to avoid the split-brain problem in Elasticsearch](http://blog.trifork.com/2013/10/24/how-to-avoid-the-split-brain-problem-in-elasticsearch/)
* Datadog's series about monitoring Elasticsearch performance:
  * [How to monitor Elasticsearch performance](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitor-elasticsearch-performance-metrics/)
  * [How to collect Elasticsearch metrics](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/collect-elasticsearch-metrics/)
  * [How to monitor Elasticsearch with Datadog](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitor-elasticsearch-datadog/)
  * [How to solve 5 Elasticsearch performance and scaling problems](https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/elasticsearch-performance-scaling-problems/)
* [Performance Monitoring Essentials - Elasticsearch Edition](https://sematext.com/publications/performance-monitoring-essentials-elasticsearch-edition.pdf)
* [Operator for running Elasticsearch in Kubernetes](https://github.com/zalando-incubator/es-operator)