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Can I determine the size of a source without reading the entire source?

a212830
Champion

Hi,

I'd like to determine the size of certain sources, but don't want the overhead of reading the entire file. Is there a way to do this?

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sloshburch
Ultra Champion

If it's already indexed (I can't tell from the post) you could use the license_usage.log to see how large the source was.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

somesoni2
Revered Legend

You can use a scripted input which will run frequently and capture and send file size to splunk.

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