topic Re: Universal forwarder consume in Installation

Universal forwarder consume

rjfv8205 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:29:44 GMT

Hello everyone, please could you tell me how universal forwarder consume? (disk, ram, cpu)

Thank you in advance and happy splunking

Re: Universal forwarder consume

lakshman239 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:27:20 GMT

The resource consumption is usually very low. Pls also check https://answers.splunk.com/answers/236233/universal-forwarder-resource-footprint-estimation.html

Re: Universal forwarder consume

pruthvikrishnap — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:22:25 GMT

HI,

on an average a forwarder is designed to consume not more than 3% of CPU, this completely depends on the inputs and outputs which are mentioned. there are few components such as pollPeriod, queueSize
which can consume a lot and can even collapse the cluster.

Re: Universal forwarder consume

rjfv8205 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:46:20 GMT

Thanks, and disk utilization? what about it?