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Indexed Data Volume from Windows Event Colector

imoskal — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:50:37 GMT

Hi,
There Windows Event Collector, which collects data from multiple Windows servers. Splunk forwarder installed on the server running this collector transmits the data to the Splunk server . How can I calculate the indexed data volume each windose servers that are going to a collector?

Re: Indexed Data Volume from Windows Event Colector

gfuente — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:54:44 GMT

Hello

You can use the SOS app:

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/29008/sos-splunk-on-splunk

It will tell you the indexed data by host

Regards

Re: Indexed Data Volume from Windows Event Colector

kristian_kolb — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:02:51 GMT

Are you talking about Windows Event Logs (application, security, system)?

Does this collection of events alter the messages in some way, or do they look like 'ordinary' events? Do they in any way contain information of what host they originated from?

Re: Indexed Data Volume from Windows Event Colector

imoskal — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:08:46 GMT

Sorry - I can not. In this case, the "host" - is the server on which the forwarder and the collector. In the event field with the name server is called "ComputerName". I can not make a search in which each field "ComputerName" were in line with an index for the amount of data.

Re: Indexed Data Volume from Windows Event Colector

imoskal — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:12:42 GMT

Yes, it is Windows Event Logs.
They look like this:
4/12/13
3:56:42.000 PM

04/12/2013 03:56:42 PM
LogName=Application
SourceName=Office Software Protection Platform Service
EventCode=1003
EventType=4
Type=Information
ComputerName=ENERGOSERVISSQL.********.com
TaskCategory=None
OpCode=None
RecordNumber=11649

Re: Indexed Data Volume from Windows Event Colector

kristian_kolb — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:17:59 GMT

So you have a field in each event (ComputerName) that contains the information of the originating machine.

 ... | eval kb=(len(_raw) / 1024) | stats sum(kb) by ComputerName | ...

Will this work?

Re: Indexed Data Volume from Windows Event Colector

imoskal — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:29:23 GMT

Yes, this works! Thank you very much!