# Qdrant Tenant Scaling

> Guides Qdrant multi-tenant scaling. Use when someone asks 'how to scale tenants', 'one collection per tenant?', 'tenant isolation', 'dedicated shards', or reports tenant performance issues. Also use when multi-tenant workloads outgrow shared infrastructure.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-qdrant-skills-tenant-scaling`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [qdrant](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/qdrant)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Databases](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/databases)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [qdrant](https://github.com/qdrant)
- **Source:** https://github.com/qdrant/skills/tree/main/skills/qdrant-scaling/scaling-data-volume/tenant-scaling
- **Website:** https://skills.qdrant.tech

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-qdrant-skills-tenant-scaling
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# What to Do When Scaling Multi-Tenant Qdrant

Do not create one collection per tenant. Does not scale past a few hundred and wastes resources. One company hit the 1000 collection limit after a year of collection-per-repo and had to migrate to payload partitioning. Use a shared collection with a tenant key.

- Understand multitenancy patterns [Multitenancy](https://skills.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy/)

Here is a short summary of the patterns:

## Number of Tenants is around 10k

Use the default multitenancy strategy via payload filtering.

Read about [Partition by payload](https://skills.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy/?s=partition-by-payload) and [Calibrate performance](https://skills.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy/?s=calibrate-performance) for best practices on indexing and query performance.

## Number of Tenants is around 100k and more

At this scale, the cluster may consist of several peers.
To localize tenant data and improve performance, use [custom sharding](https://skills.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/distributed_deployment/?s=user-defined-sharding) to assign tenants to specific shards based on tenant ID hash.
This will localize tenant requests to specific nodes instead of broadcasting them to all nodes, improving performance and reducing load on each node.

## If tenants are unevenly sized

If some tenants are much larger than others, use [tiered multitenancy](https://skills.qdrant.tech/md/documentation/manage-data/multitenancy/?s=tiered-multitenancy) to promote large tenants to dedicated shards while keeping small tenants on shared shards. This optimizes resource allocation and performance for tenants of varying sizes.

## Need Strict Tenant Isolation

Use when: legal/compliance requirements demand per-tenant encryption or strict isolation beyond what payload filtering provides.

- Multiple collections may be necessary for per-tenant encryption keys
- Limit collection count and use payload filtering within each collection
- This is the exception, not the default. Only use when compliance requires it.

## What NOT to Do

- Do not create one collection per tenant without compliance justification (does not scale past hundreds)
- Do not skip `is_tenant=true` on the tenant index (kills sequential read performance)
- Do not build global HNSW for multi-tenant collections (wasteful, use `payload_m` instead)

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [qdrant](https://github.com/qdrant)
- **Source:** [qdrant/skills](https://github.com/qdrant/skills)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Homepage:** https://skills.qdrant.tech

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-qdrant-skills-tenant-scaling
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/qdrant
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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