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How to calculate compression by sourcetype?

the_wolverine
Champion

I know how to use dbinspect to calculate compression by index. Is there a way to calculate compression by sourcetype for an index with mixed sourcetypes?

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_d_
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Next to impossible. We don't keep track of different sourcetypes' rawdata and their corresponding size of the tsidx files.

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