https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Will-installing-a-Splunk-universal-forwarder-on-my-linux-Windows/m-p/147884#M30084 <P>Of course a forwarder must consume some resources on any system it is monitoring. We have worked hard to make sure that it's footprint is minimal. A UF when monitoring a reasonable set of log files (or Event Logs) typically will use less than 1% of a CPU and maybe 30 MB of memory. This amount can be higher if you, for example: monitor many tens of thousands of files with many changing files; increase the thruput limit on the forwarder; install addons that consume additional CPU or memory to collect other types of data sources.</P> Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:04:37 GMT gkanapathy 2014-10-01T18:04:37Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Will-installing-a-Splunk-universal-forwarder-on-my-linux-Windows/m-p/147883#M30083 <P>By installing Splunk universal forwarder in my linux/Windows server , will it reduce its performance?</P> Wed, 01 Oct 2014 17:26:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Will-installing-a-Splunk-universal-forwarder-on-my-linux-Windows/m-p/147883#M30083 srikrishna1011 2014-10-01T17:26:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Will-installing-a-Splunk-universal-forwarder-on-my-linux-Windows/m-p/147884#M30084 <P>Of course a forwarder must consume some resources on any system it is monitoring. We have worked hard to make sure that it's footprint is minimal. A UF when monitoring a reasonable set of log files (or Event Logs) typically will use less than 1% of a CPU and maybe 30 MB of memory. This amount can be higher if you, for example: monitor many tens of thousands of files with many changing files; increase the thruput limit on the forwarder; install addons that consume additional CPU or memory to collect other types of data sources.</P> Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:04:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Will-installing-a-Splunk-universal-forwarder-on-my-linux-Windows/m-p/147884#M30084 gkanapathy 2014-10-01T18:04:37Z