Is license usage metered on raw data only?

[rroberts]

Is license usage metered on raw data only or does it include hosts. data,  source types. data, sources, and extracted search terms (assuming this is strings.data) as well?

[woodcock]

License is calculated against raw data and does not include the size of your metadata or indexes into your raw data.

[dwaddle · Accepted solution]

License usage is based on your raw data volumes, not counting any data in the _internal index or any summary index. Based on your question, I assume you're looking in the bucket directory structure at these files. The rawdata files themselves don't necessarily correlate to license usage because they are compressed.

[mabbez]

Where do I check what is eating up at my license. been receiving the following message for the past few days:

Error in 'litsearch' command: Your Splunk license expired or you have exceeded your license limit too many times. Renew your Splunk license by visiting www.splunk.com/store or calling 866.GET.SPLUNK.

[rroberts]

So search terms, Metadata fields are not a factor in defaultdb?