diff --git a/Setting-up-a-Hub.md b/Setting-up-a-Hub.md
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@@ -96,19 +96,45 @@ docker compose up -d scribe
 
 wait for it to sync
 
-## Elastic Sync
+## Elastic and Elastic Sync
 
-### then start elastic sync and wait for that
+### first start elastic and wait for it to load the snapshot
+
+```bash
+docker compose up -d es01
+```
+
+you can check the loading progress by running `curl localhost:9200/claims/_count`
+
+once the count stops going up, start elastic sync
 
 ```bash
 docker compose up -d scribe_elastic_sync
 ```
 
-wait for it to sync
+it should take a few hours to sync. you'll know its done when the log messages (`docker compose logs`) say they're advancing to the latest block. here's an example:
+
+```
+scribe_elastic_sync_1  | 2023-01-12 15:02:50,801 INFO hub.service.ElasticSyncService:236: advancing to 1292266
+scribe_elastic_sync_1  | 2023-01-12 15:02:59,100 INFO hub.service.ElasticSyncService:330: Indexing block 1292266 done. 240/240 successful
+```
 
 
 ## Herald
 
+```bash
+docker compose up -d herald
+```
+
+## Firewall
+
+open the following ports in your firewall
+
+- `22` for ssh
+- `9246` for lbcd
+- `50001` for herald
+- `2113` and `2113` for prometheus monitoring
+
 ## Monitoring
 
 start prometheus and grafana