Logging & Observability Calculators
15 free logging & observability calculators in DevOps. The first 2 have a full write-up: the method, a worked example and questions specific to that calculator.
- Distributed Trace Growth CalculatorProject how distributed trace volume will grow as microservices and traffic increase.
- Observability Cost CalculatorEstimate total observability platform cost from logs, metrics and traces ingested.
- ELK Storage CalculatorEstimate Elasticsearch storage needs for an ELK stack from log volume and retention.
- Fluent Bit Throughput CalculatorEstimate the log throughput Fluent Bit can process given CPU and memory allocation.
- Fluentd Buffer CalculatorSize Fluentd buffer chunks and queue length to avoid backpressure and log loss.
- Jaeger Capacity CalculatorCalculate Jaeger collector and storage capacity needed for your trace volume.
- Log Compression CalculatorEstimate storage savings from compressing log data before archival or shipping.
- Log Ingestion CalculatorCalculate total log ingestion volume per day across all monitored services.
- Log Parsing Performance CalculatorEstimate log parsing throughput based on parser complexity and log line rate.
- Log Retention CalculatorCalculate storage needed to retain logs for a given period at your ingestion rate.
- Log Search Performance CalculatorEstimate query response time when searching across a large log index.
- OpenSearch Index Size CalculatorCalculate OpenSearch index size on disk from document count and field mappings.
- OpenTelemetry Data Volume CalculatorCalculate total telemetry data volume from OpenTelemetry traces, metrics and logs.
- Tracing Storage CalculatorEstimate storage requirements for distributed tracing spans across a sampling rate.
- Zipkin Storage CalculatorEstimate backend storage needs for Zipkin trace data at a given span volume.