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1,000 servers each write 50 log lines a second, and a line averages 200 bytes. How much log data is produced per day?

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Answer

About 860 GB per day. In review, anything from 430 to 1,720 counts as right.

The worked estimate

1,000 × 50 × 200 B = 10,000,000 B = 10 MB/s. × 86,400 s = 864,000 MB ≈ 860 GB a day, roughly 0.86 TB, or over 300 TB a year if all of it is kept. Short retention and compression make that manageable.

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