Hi guys, could you please help me to configure my cluster to scale automatically?

How are you hosting Typesense?

On the cloud

Please email contact@typesense.org with the cluster ID. We will take care of it.

Sure, do you think that you will manage to do it in let’s say 24 hours?

The auto scaling in Typesense Cloud is not real-time elastic. We will be able to handle capacity upgrades when your cluster starts bumping into limits and we notice degradation. It's not instant so you can't rely on that for handling massive spikes like 0 to 10x baseline traffic, for example.

Okay I get it

Then you can schedule an upgrade of your cluster for expected traffic. And then take a call on downscaling it later on based on metrics after a few days.

And could you advise which cluster could certainly cope with a traffic level of a few thousand people, who could make quite a few requests?

But you can always schedule upgrades/downgrades from the UI. Happy to discuss specifics about your cluster if you can email us your cluster ID, and expected concurrency.

It is hard to predict to be honest

Can't say without looking at the size and schema of your data. If you wish, you can benchmark your cluster to get an idea.