topic Re: How do you estimate the storage sizing? in Monitoring Splunk

How do you estimate the storage sizing?

deepakc — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:23:38 GMT

I was following the guidelines from this page on how to estimate the storage sizing as a learning excercise, but I do not seem to get any totals and I have uploaded some sample data into a index.

The document is http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.1/Capacity/Estimateyourstoragerequirements
Im using Splunk 7.1/RHEL6.5.

Command output:

cd /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/defaultdb

sudo du -ch hot_v*
du: cannot access `hot_v*': No such file or directory
0 total

Any thoughts?

Re: How do you estimate the storage sizing?

harsmarvania57 — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 15:45:32 GMT

You need to check DB size in /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/defaultdb/db for hot & warm buckets and for cold buckets please check in /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk/defaultdb/colddb

There is another site (https://splunk-sizing.appspot.com/) on which you can calculate index and storage size.

Re: How do you estimate the storage sizing?

deepakc — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:51:47 GMT

ok many thanks

Re: How do you estimate the storage sizing?

mayurr98 — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 07:21:45 GMT

hey @deepakc

here are some docs which will guide you about storage sizing.
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.1/Capacity/Estimateyourstoragerequirements
https://www.splunk.com/blog/2015/02/18/splunk-sizing-made-easy.html
https://splunk-sizing.appspot.com/

let me know if this helps you!