Product performance is impacted by various factors, depending on your deployment size and scale. You can use the following information as a high-level guide for understanding the factors that can impact your deployment sizing and the approximate impact they are likely to have on product performance.
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The following table lists the variables that can impact the product performance along with the levels of impact to each of the system resources:
Variables that impact product performance
| Variable | Impact on resources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Processor1 | Memory2 | Storage3 | I/O4 | Comments | |
| Number of data collectors | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium | |
| Retention period | None | Medium | High | Low | |
| Number of tags defined for the data collectors | Medium | Low | Medium | Low | |
| Number of fields added to the Fields section available under the Filters panel on the Search tab. | High | None | None | Low | |
| Number of fields specified in data patterns | Low | None | Medium | None | |
| Number of unique field values in the Fields section available under the Filters panel on the Search tab. | Low | High | High | High | |
| Volume of data indexed per day | High | Low | High | High | |
| Number of managed hosts | Low | None | None | None | |
| Simple search commands (Search commands with nontabular output) | Low | Low | None | Low | |
| Advanced search commands ( timechart, stats, top, rare, and group) | Medium | Medium | None | Medium | Requires high CPU utilization by the Indexer and Search components. Avoid using high cardinality fields (fields with large number of unique values) in the |
| Number of concurrent users | High | High | None | High | |
| Number of notification alerts | Low | Low | None | Low | Notification alerts are meant for shorter time period searches. |
| Number of notification reports | Low | Low | None | Low | Notification reports are expected to range for medium time period searches. |
| Number of dashboards and dashlets | Medium | Medium | None | Medium | Performance overhead of a dashlet is the same as that of a manual run of the saved search used for creating the dashlet. |
1 Processor utilization (CPU)
2 Memory utilization (RAM)
3 Storage utilization (disk space)
4 I/O transfer rate (disk read/write rate)
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