Average load of universal forwarder and heavy forwarder

[DavidHourani]

Hello Splunkers,

What is the average CPU/memory usage of a universal forwarder and heavy forwarder ? ( The average for a forwarder collecting *Nix perf for example)

Regards,
David

[Jeremiah · Accepted solution]

The answers varies depending upon your configuration, but for a universal forwarder running the *nix app, you are probably looking at <1% CPU and 40 MB of RAM. A heavy forwarder will be slightly higher. Running your own benchmarks in your environment is the best way to measure the forwarder's impact.

There have also been several discussions about this in the past:

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/645/what-is-splunks-footprint.html

[DavidHourani]

thank you i couldn't find the other answers cause it's kind of hard to google the right words hehe..