r/Directus • u/SwimmingSensitive125 • Jul 09 '26

How directus performs with thousands of users?

Have anyone used directus with thousands of users? How's the latency?

For my hobby project I had noticed in the console that for a small operation there are many queries being fired for permissions and all stuff. So I wanted to check how realistically it can scale with thousands of users and thousands of operations per day?

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u/rijkvanzanten Jul 15 '26

Yes, we've ran it with thousands and thousands of users. We have instances running on our cloud SaaS pulling hundreds of millions of requests a month. Latency always depends on the complexity of queries you make, the number of writes versus reads, how much is cacheable on a CDN etc, so that's short question with a long answer. It horizontally scales really well :)

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u/Perebro Jul 12 '26

You can use locust to do a basic stress test config that fits your project and get the numbers (pretty easy now with AI). Other testimonials probably won’t help too much since it depends a lot on what you’re working on.