Measured event size · Network flows

Cisco Netflow v5 log size: 830 bytes per event

The average Cisco Netflow v5 event is 830 bytes, measured from samples of its logs. A network flow source typically produces 2,000 events per second per device, bursting to 10,000: unsampled; 1:1000 sampling is 1000x lower. The rate is an informed estimate; the size is measured.

What that comes to

One device, raw bytes, at the typical rate for a network flow source.

A day of Cisco Netflow v5 logs from one device at the category's typical rate, 143 GB, is about the size of a 70B model’s weights.

Size your own

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 Cisco Netflow v5 what moves it most is this: unsampled; 1:1000 sampling is 1000x lower. The profiler reads a sample from Cisco Netflow v5 in your browser, line by line, one event per line, and reports the bytes per line to set against it. Nothing is uploaded.

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