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indexer storage calculation

sajjala
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in my environment i have 4 indexers. daily indexeing is 50gb/day.retention period is 30 days . In these 30 days retention period  for hot bucket 10 days and for cold bucket retention period is 20 days .how can we calculate indexer storage .

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richgalloway
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The simple calculation is daily ingestion times days times compression ratio (15%), but you must also include multipliers such as replication and datamodel acceleration.

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