Sometimes, users may need to know which log sources are heavily used and are generating the most events to decide how to distribute workload among the event collectors.
This article details the steps to determine the log sources that are generating the most events to help with your load distribution.
Disproportionate load distribution in a multiple-collector deployment
To help you determine which log sources are sending the most data, create a saved search by performing the following steps:
Click Search > New Search .
Load Inbound events by Country/Region saved search and leave Unique Counts disabled.
Go to the Column Definition section.
Remove the Geographic Country/Region column from the "Group by" section.
Add the Event Processor column to the "Group by" section.
Leave the Order By option set to Event count(sum) .
Go to the Search Parameters section.
Leave the Direction is Remote to Local (Direction is R2L) filter as is.
Set the Event Processor filter to your event processor.
Click Search .
Click the Log Source (Unique count) column to view the associated log sources.
This will display all the Log Sources and their Event count (sum), and will give you an idea of which log sources are generating the most events. When you have this information, you can balance your log sources over multiple Event Collectors.