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Firewall logs ingest- What is causing spike in firewall data?

Akdollar
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My organization has a 10G a day data ingest subscription with splunk. Recently, every Tuesday,  our firewall data ingest will spike sending us over the 10G limit. How can I find out what is causing this Tuesdays spike? Any suggestion will be appreciated. 

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skramp
SplunkTrust
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You have to investigate your data. Compare your number of events (and length), compare events by loglevel/allowDeny, figure out if your  sending or receiving behaviour is different for some devices/IPs etc.

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