---
schema_version: "1"
id: 8f039bc48ab99e0073e7eec76c6bec8a5caac752801066483776654e06acb0cf
title: Capacity Planning
collection: tableau
version: current
locale: en-us
portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/tableau/current/en-us/blueprint/bp_capacity_planning.md
canonical_url: https://help.tableau.com/current/blueprint/en-us/bp_capacity_planning.htm
source_site: help.tableau.com
content_type: documentation
content_hash: c4c8e48b48038cb6242f8b3471cc0ff604496371c244b6c651252d73518982db
description: Blueprint guidance on capacity planning to sustain Tableau Server performance as workloads grow.
---
[Skip to main content](#main-content)

# Capacity Planning

> [!TIP]
> 
> This content is part of Tableau Blueprint—a maturity framework allowing you to zoom in and improve how your organization uses data to drive impact. To begin your journey, take our [assessment](https://www.tableau.com/en-us/learn/webinars/tableaus-blueprint-self-assessment).

Note: This topic applies to Tableau Server only.

To ensure optimal Tableau Server performance and sufficient capacity to handle increased workloads, you must plan for growth. Capacity planning allows you to scale your infrastructure with the increased use of analytics and rapid adoption across your organization by ensuring sufficient headroom is maintained and reducing the likelihood of resource contention and conflicts over shared resources. Performance data, user onboarding schedules, and load testing results are used to determine future server sizing and the capacity plan.

Factors that can influence capacity planning:

- A newly released set of data sources coupled with a dashboard that draws the attention of the entire company.
- Increasing skills and use of analytics that become ingrained in the day-to-day operations of the company.
- New features released in the platform, which can increase user interactivity overall.
- Change of underlying data strategy powering these dashboards, either in terms of volume, complexity, change in database technology, user security etc.

To complete the table below, you should aggregate the count of users from the [Tableau Users](https://help.tableau.com/current/blueprint/en-us/bp_users.htm) tab in the [Tableau Blueprint Planner](https://mkt.tableau.com/TableauBlueprintPlanner.xlsx).

<table class="table--plain">
                    <thead>
                        <tr>
                            <th>
                                <p>&nbsp;</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Year 1*</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Year 2</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Year 3</p>
                            </th>
                        </tr>
                    </thead>
                    <tbody>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p>Total Users</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p>&nbsp;</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p>&nbsp;</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p>&nbsp;</p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p>Nodes</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p>&nbsp;</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p>&nbsp;</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p>&nbsp;</p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p>Total Cores</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p>&nbsp;</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p>&nbsp;</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p>&nbsp;</p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </tbody>
                </table>

Note: Depending on the number of users and onboarding rate, you may consider 6-month, quarterly, or monthly intervals.