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How to find top 5 input data volumes of the day?

Alan_Bradley
Path Finder

I got Your index exceeded your 20.00 GB/day limit again. I would like to know which data inputs cause this.

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matt
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This search should give you the answer

index=_internal Metrics "group=per_source_thruput" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/license_audit.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/metrics.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/searchhistory.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/splunklogger.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/web_access.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/web_service.log" NOT series="filetracker" NOT series="audittrail" NOT series="fschangemonitor" | timechart span=1d sum(kb) by series

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BunnyHop
Contributor

I would recommend downloading the Splunk License Usage app available from the SplunkBase repository.

http://www.splunkbase.com/apps/All/4.x/App/app:Splunk+License+Usage

matt
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This search should give you the answer

index=_internal Metrics "group=per_source_thruput" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/license_audit.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/metrics.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/searchhistory.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/splunklogger.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/web_access.log" NOT series="/Applications/splunk34/splunk/var/log/splunk/web_service.log" NOT series="filetracker" NOT series="audittrail" NOT series="fschangemonitor" | timechart span=1d sum(kb) by series

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