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How to get average event size...
Is there a quick way (metadata? tstats?) to get the average event size for my events? Querying every event would take forever...
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license_usage.log shows the size of the events...I usually use that so long as none were skipped.
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If you wanted a quick and dirty method you could do some math on the metrics logs (# events / size) but the larger your environment the less I trust the metrics log /shrug.
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AFAIK, Size of raw data is not stored in any metadata/tsidx, so only option would be to query raw data. May be run for a smaller period to avoid very long running query.
your base search | eval size=len(_raw) | stats avg(size)
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Yep. Event size was important to my system at one point so I set-up an accelerated data model using the same eval you have shown above. With the ADM it's easy to grab stats based on sourcetype, source, index and/or host. Once the need passed, I disabled the acceleration.
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Thanks. Is that bytes?
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Yes.......
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