Log Management Planning Calculator

I was using the cloud service by EditGrid but they went offline – Use the three calculators I built below instead
http://www.buzzcircuit.com/determining-peak-eps-calculations-in-logging/
http://www.buzzcircuit.com/netcerebrals-device-eps-calculator/
http://www.buzzcircuit.com/simple-log-storage-calculator/

NOTE: EDITGRID IS NO LONGER IN BUSINESS…

Select the “click to edit” button at the top of the spreadsheet to start entering data. Select the drop-down button in the top left corner for features such as full-screen, download as excel and info related to EditGrid.

To use, just enter total quantity of each device type into the “Device Quantity” column. The “Per Device EPS” column provides industry averages for the event per second (eps) rate from each device type and you can change the values with your own. Next, modify the values next to the text highlighted in red under the “Event Capacity Planning” section to finish your planning.

You may want to do this separately for every remote site you plan on aggregating event for to model the bandwidth and storage planning. Continue reading →