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How to calculate size of Index

Anantha123
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what are the different ways to calculate size of one index ?

looking for solutions other than "licence_usage.log".

Appreciate your help. Thank you.

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inventsekar
SplunkTrust
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Hi @Anantha123 ...

1). on DMC, you can get the index size details. 

2). Using dbinspect command you can get the index size

| dbinspect index=myindex | eval GB=sizeOnDiskMB/1024 | stat sum(GB) 

3). rest command 

| rest /services/data/indexes | stats values(currentDBSizeMB) by title

4) eventcount command:

 

| eventcount summarize=false index=* report_size=true | eval GB=(size_bytes/1024)/1024/1024 | stats sum(GB) by index, server

 

 5) collect command: (not sure of this... pls test this one)

 

|collect index=myindex

 

  

thanks and best regards,
Sekar

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Anantha123
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Thank you for the reply

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
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A bit late to the party 😉

But seriously - getting the size of the index is one thing but before that we need to define what we mean by that.

Index can be measured by many different parameters.

1. Cumulative size of all indexed events (that's what license usage counts as well)

2. Size of raw event files (compressed or not)

3. Cumulative size of everything related to just events (raw data, metadata)

4. Cumulative size of data regarding events as well as summaries created for given index.

5. Any of the above points but expressed not in terms of file sizes but in terms of usage of underlying storage (as in block-aligned or similar).

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