https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236947#M70427 <P>Yes....... </P> Mon, 02 May 2016 21:59:07 GMT somesoni2 2016-05-02T21:59:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236943#M70423 <P>Is there a quick way (metadata? tstats?) to get the average event size for my events? Querying every event would take forever...</P> Mon, 02 May 2016 20:47:53 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236943#M70423 a212830 2016-05-02T20:47:53Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236944#M70424 <P>AFAIK, Size of raw data is not stored in any metadata/tsidx, so only option would be to query raw data. May be run for a smaller period to avoid very long running query.</P> <PRE><CODE>your base search | eval size=len(_raw) | stats avg(size) </CODE></PRE> Mon, 02 May 2016 20:51:28 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236944#M70424 somesoni2 2016-05-02T20:51:28Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236945#M70425 <P>Yep. Event size was important to my system at one point so I set-up an accelerated data model using the same eval you have shown above. With the ADM it's easy to grab stats based on sourcetype, source, index and/or host. Once the need passed, I disabled the acceleration.</P> Mon, 02 May 2016 21:02:08 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236945#M70425 twinspop 2016-05-02T21:02:08Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236946#M70426 <P>Thanks. Is that bytes? </P> Mon, 02 May 2016 21:48:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236946#M70426 a212830 2016-05-02T21:48:34Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236947#M70427 <P>Yes....... </P> Mon, 02 May 2016 21:59:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236947#M70427 somesoni2 2016-05-02T21:59:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236948#M70428 <P>If you wanted a quick and dirty method you could do some math on the metrics logs (# events / size) but the larger your environment the less I trust the metrics log /shrug.</P> Tue, 03 May 2016 11:39:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236948#M70428 Runals 2016-05-03T11:39:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236949#M70429 <P>license_usage.log shows the size of the events...I usually use that so long as none were skipped.</P> Mon, 13 Jun 2016 20:23:02 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-get-average-event-size/m-p/236949#M70429 sloshburch 2016-06-13T20:23:02Z