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Bandwidth requirements for Splunk

evinasco08
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hi team

What minimum bandwidth is necessary between indexers and the rest of the platform elements (Heavy Forwarders, Search Heads, Master Cluster, License, Deployment Servers, etc.) for different communications?

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kiran_panchavat
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@evinasco08 

It truly depends on many factors, like number of events, number of forwarders, as well as stakeholder expectations/requirements, and how much time and money you have!

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Capacity/Referencehardware 

https://www.aplura.com/splunk-best-practices/#hardware 

The blog post how's you the bandwidth usage difference between universal and heavy forwarders.

Universal or Heavy, that is the question? | Splunk

The general answer is it depends, however you can refer to

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/2014/what-is-the-minimum-network-bandwidth-required-for-splunk-fo...  OR https://answers.splunk.com/answers/340084/how-to-search-how-much-bandwidth-a-forwarder-is-us.html 

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.2.0/Indexer/Systemrequirements 

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/pdfs/partners/tech-briefs/deploying-splunk-enterprise-on-google-cloud-p... 

I hope this helps, if any reply helps you, you could add your upvote/karma points to that reply, thanks.

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kiran_panchavat
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@evinasco08 

It truly depends on many factors, like number of events, number of forwarders, as well as stakeholder expectations/requirements, and how much time and money you have!

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Capacity/Referencehardware 

https://www.aplura.com/splunk-best-practices/#hardware 

The blog post how's you the bandwidth usage difference between universal and heavy forwarders.

Universal or Heavy, that is the question? | Splunk

The general answer is it depends, however you can refer to

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/2014/what-is-the-minimum-network-bandwidth-required-for-splunk-fo...  OR https://answers.splunk.com/answers/340084/how-to-search-how-much-bandwidth-a-forwarder-is-us.html 

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.2.0/Indexer/Systemrequirements 

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/pdfs/partners/tech-briefs/deploying-splunk-enterprise-on-google-cloud-p... 

I hope this helps, if any reply helps you, you could add your upvote/karma points to that reply, thanks.
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