Stack Sizer
Size a self-hosted stack from official sources.
Load and options
Mattermost
v1.0.0Load
Up to 100 users in a few teams, about 3,000 messages a day, screenshots and documents up to 25 MB per user a month.
Options
No options change this app's resources.
Recommended resources
App requirements + system baseline + safety headroom. Nothing else is added, and nothing is rounded to a machine size.
vCPU 2.52, RAM 5.1 GiB, Disk 51.405 GiB
vCPU2.52
RAM5.1GiB
Disk51.405GiB
Breakdown
| Line | From | vCPU | RAM (GiB) | Disk (GiB) | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mattermost | Mattermost Team Edition (web app, API, WebSockets, jobs) · Medium load | 1 | 2 | 30 | 12345 |
| Mattermost | PostgreSQL · Medium load | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 6789101112132 |
| System baseline | Operating system, Container runtime (Docker Engine, containerd), System logs (journald), plus logs for 2 containers | 0.1 | 1.25 | 8.2 | 141516171819 |
| Safety headroom | vCPU 20%, RAM 20%, disk 15% of apps + baseline | 0.42 | 0.85 | 6.705 | 2015211822 |
| Recommended total | 2.52 | 5.1 | 51.405 |
Sources
- Mattermost docs: Software and hardware requirements (PostgreSQL 14.0+; v12.0 needs 15+; single server 1–1,000 users: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM; 1,000–2,000: 2 vCPU, 4 GB) (Mattermost, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Mattermost docs: Scale up to 200 users (app node 2 vCPU/4 GiB; files 1–5, 5–25 or 25–100 MB per user per month; start from 600–800 MB) (Mattermost, read 14 Oct 2026)
- mattermost repository: model/config.go at v11.7.12 (ListenAddress :8065, SiteURL http://localhost:8065, MaxOpenConns 100, MaxUsersPerTeam 50, EnableOpenServer false, socket in /var/tmp) (Mattermost, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Docker Hub manifest of mattermost/mattermost-team-edition:11.7.12 (linux/amd64): 448,271,026 B compressed; 31 layers decompressed and counted: 649,274,368 B (Mattermost, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Docker: the containerd image store keeps image layers both compressed and uncompressed (Mattermost, read 14 Oct 2026)
- PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.4 Resource Consumption (Mattermost, read 10 Oct 2026)
- PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.3 Connections and Authentication (Mattermost, read 10 Oct 2026)
- PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.10 Vacuuming (autovacuum settings) (Mattermost, read 10 Oct 2026)
- PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.5 Write Ahead Log (max_wal_size) (Mattermost, read 10 Oct 2026)
- PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 51.2 How Connections Are Established (Mattermost, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Docker Official Image postgres: documentation (docker-library/docs) (Mattermost, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Docker Hub: library/postgres tag 18.6 (compressed image sizes) (Mattermost, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Mattermost docs: Important upgrade notes (v11.0: MySQL ended, PostgreSQL 14+, Bleve and GitLab SSO in Team Edition removed, PBKDF2 hashing, MaxOpenConns 100; v10.11.17+ to ≤ v11.7.2 blocked) (Mattermost, read 14 Oct 2026)
- Ubuntu Server: System requirements (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Google Kubernetes Engine: About GKE node sizing (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- ANAROQ measurement: dockerd and containerd at rest (Ubuntu 24.04, Docker 29.8.2) (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Docker Community Forums: Docker resource usage & overhead (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- journald.conf(5), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Docker Docs: Local file logging driver (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- AWS Compute Optimizer: Rightsizing recommendation preferences (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- Kubernetes: Node-pressure Eviction (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
- mke2fs(8), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
Basis
- Catalog release
- 2026.10.10
- Sizing policy
- 2026.10.0
- Profile Mattermost
- 1.0.0
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