Measured event size · Firewall

Palo Alto Firewall log size: 734 bytes per event

The average Palo Alto Firewall event is 734 bytes, measured from samples of its logs. A firewall source typically produces 600 events per second per device, bursting to 3,000: per appliance; TLS inspection multiplies it. The rate is an informed estimate; the size is measured.

What that comes to

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

A day of Palo Alto Firewall logs from one device at the category's typical rate, 38.1 GB, is about the size of Fortnite on PC.

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 Palo Alto Firewall what moves it most is this: per appliance; TLS inspection multiplies it. The profiler reads a sample from Palo Alto Firewall in your browser, line by line, one event per line, and reports the bytes per line to set against it. Nothing is uploaded.

Other firewall sources

• Forcepoint Firewall561 B
• PaloAlto Networks OS348 B
• Checkpoint FW200 B

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