What does the "Value" variable in my memory collection logs mean?

[drizzo]

When I enter In my the following into my Search...

 index=* host=* sourcetype="Perfmon"Memory" collection=Memory object=Memory counter="% Committed Bytes In Use"

I receive logs containing information about memory usage. However, there is a variable called, Value. I'm assuming it has to do something with how many bytes are being committed... maybe? It would have to be too low of an actual value though; just seven bytes being used? Impossibly small.

My end goal is to have a Time Chart of all the PC on my network with memory usage from the past 24 hours.

I tried to look this up through Splunk Answers, Splunk Docs, and Window's Technet, but with no avail. Any assistance would be lovely.

Example of Log:

07/24/2017 12:43:45.233 -0400
collection=Memory
object=Memory
counter="% Committed Bytes in Use"
instance=0
Value=7.0622917708150004

[niketn · Accepted solution]

Since the performance counter you have chosen is % Committed Bytes In Use, a Value of 7.06% is the percent of total memory available. Windows Technet has details on this: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2008/01/25/an-overview-of-troubleshooting-memory-issues/.

You can also compare these values/performance counters using Performance Monitor in Windows Start > run > perfmon