HI Fellow Splunkers,
Need some help out here. What would be the minimum Disk Space required when installing a Universal Forwarder? or is there an ideal disk space for a universal forwarder? Just wanted to make sure the Forwarder itself doesn't utilize that much of Disk space when installed.
Thanks!
hi,
If default settings are used assuming full internal log retentions:
- Windows installation disk usage comes around : approx 450MB
- Linux installation disk usage comes around : approx 350MB
If you change the log-local.cfg and change the maxFileSize
of each log to 5MB and maxBackupIndex
to 1 , you can reduce the size on disk to 180MB ish (This means the splunk internal logs are rotated only once and each file is 5MB from a default of 25MB & 5 rotations)
We have requested specific filesystem for Linux Based clients to have 2GB for /opt/splunkforwarder as a build standard.