Measured event size · Distributed system

Apache Zookeeper log size: 139 bytes per event

The average Apache Zookeeper event is 139 bytes, measured from samples of its logs. A distributed system source typically produces 100 events per second per device, bursting to 1,000: per node at INFO; log level is the lever. The rate is an informed estimate; the size is measured.

139 B
per event, measured
100
events per second, typical
1.2 GB
per device per day
438 GB
per device per year

What that comes to

One device, raw bytes, at the typical rate for a distributed system source.

PeriodAt 100 events/sAt the 1,000 events/s burst
An hour50 MB500 MB
A day1.2 GB12 GB
90 days108 GB1.1 TB
A year438 GB4.4 TB

A day of Apache Zookeeper logs from one device at the category's typical rate, 1.2 GB, is about 2 times a CD-ROM.

Size your own

100
events per second
1.2 GB
per day
108 GB
at retention

Raw bytes, before compression, indexing overhead and replication.

Measure a sample of your own

The figure above is an average; yours will differ, and for Apache Zookeeper what moves it most is this: per node at INFO; log level is the lever. The profiler reads a sample from Apache Zookeeper in your browser, line by line, one event per line, and reports the bytes per line to set against it. Nothing is uploaded.

Other distributed system sources

The distributed system category: its typical rate and every source in it →

Logcaliper, free on iOS, has these sizes and rates built in and sizes a whole list of sources at retention: storage, cluster capacity, nodes.