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Latency calculation in Splunk

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Hi Team,
I'm seeing following 22.77 as avg latency for the last 24 hours for one of the sourcetype. What is the normal avg latency that can be accepted since the logs are coming through syslog-> Heavy Forwarder->Indexer's and ingesting into splunk. 
Please let us know if there is any other alternative approach we can use to calculate the latency if below is incorrect.

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Any help would be highly appreciated.

Regards
VK

 

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The calculation is correct for what it is. However, all this is is the difference between the time the event was indexed by Splunk and the timestamp Splunk has assigned to the event. This is usually based on the data in the event. Whether this represents "latency" is a matter of opinion and whether this is acceptable is also a matter of opinion. It very much depends on the route your data is taking and what the data represents. All of this is not something we can answer for you.

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The calculation is correct for what it is. However, all this is is the difference between the time the event was indexed by Splunk and the timestamp Splunk has assigned to the event. This is usually based on the data in the event. Whether this represents "latency" is a matter of opinion and whether this is acceptable is also a matter of opinion. It very much depends on the route your data is taking and what the data represents. All of this is not something we can answer for you.

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