Limits & Standards

This page lists the various limits and standard operating parameters of LogScale. See Best Practice for the best practices relative to ingest via the Ingest API.

General Limits & Parameters

Below is a list of general limits and parameters:

Note

Unless otherwise specified, all multiple-byte data sizes are expressed in SI units using decimal (Base 10). For example:

  • 1KB = 1,000 Bytes

  • 1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes

  • 1GB = 1,000,000,000 Bytes

  • 1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes

Data Structure

LimitDefault ValueDynamic VariableAvailability

Max number of fields in an event. During ingest, fields are sorted alphabetically by name and the first fields are parsed, the remainder of the named fields are dropped. The @rawstring field is not modified and will contain all data.

8,000

  
Max event size. When the configured event size max is reached, either in @rawstring and/or in other fields, the overall data will be truncated. Fields will be removed entirely, and @rawstring will be truncated down to the allowed max size with added ... at the end, such that the of all other fields + size of @rawstring is less than the configured max event size. Only @rawstring, @timestamp and @timezone are added when truncation occurs.

1 MB

  
Max CSV lookup file size (see Lookup Files).

200 MB

MaxCsvFileUploadSizeBytes

Variable default: 209,715,200 bytes (200 MB)

 
Max JSON lookup file upload size (see Lookup Files).

100 MB

MaxJsonFileUploadSizeBytes

Variable default: 104,857,600 bytes (100 MB)

 
Max file upload size (see Lookup Files)

2,048 MB

  

Query Related Limits

LimitDefault ValueDynamic VariableAvailability

Max memory a live query can consume during its execution.

100,000,000 bytes

LiveQueryMemoryLimit

Variable default: 100,000,000 bytes

 
Max query length in characters

66,000 characters

  

Number of pipes that can be included in a query.

99 pipes

  

Max number of results that any query can give.

100,000

StateRowLimit

Variable default: 200,000 rows

 

Function Limits

LimitDefault ValueDynamic VariableAvailability
Default number of events set in an RDNS request. See rdns() function.

5,000

RdnsDefaultLimit

Variable default: 5,000 events

 

Default value for the limit parameter in groupBy(), selfJoin() and some other functions, when not specified.

20,000 rows

GroupDefaultLimit

Variable default: 20,000 group elements

 

Max value for the limit parameter in the groupBy() function, meaning that the function can collect up to one million groups.

1,000,000

GroupMaxLimit

Variable default: 1,000,000 group elements

 
Max number of events in tail(), head(), and sort() functions.

20,000 events

StateRowLimit

Variable default: 200,000 rows

 
Max number of events in an RDNS request. See rdns() function.

20,000

RdnsMaxLimit

Variable default: 20,000 events

 
Memory limit for the mapper phase of a collect() function running as a top-level function, that is, how much data such a function can store.

10 MiB

  
Memory limit for the mapper phase of a collect() function running in a subquery, or as a subaggregator to another function, that is, how much data such a function can store.

1 MiB

  

API Limits

LimitDefault ValueDynamic VariableAvailability
Limits for GraphQL queries on the total number of selected fields and fragments for authenticated users.

1,000

AuthenticatedGraphQLSelectionSizeLimit

 
Limits for GraphQL queries on the total number of selected fields and fragments for unauthenticated users.

150

UnauthenticatedGraphQLSelectionSizeLimit

Variable default: 150 queries

 
Max body size in POST requests after decompression.

32M bytes

  
Max body size in POST requests before decompression.

32M bytes

  

Standards

Below are some standards in LogScale.

Character sets

LogScale works with the JVM standard charsets. The character sets below are guaranteed to be supported in future JVM versions.

Note

These are the character sets LogScale accepts in the HTTP request and this may not necessarily be the same character sets accepted by the log shipper, such as Log Collector or another third-party log shipper, when ingesting files. When ingesting files, they are read by a log shipper that then makes HTTP requests to LogScale, and the character set supported by the log shipper is unlikely to have anything to do with what LogScale supports in the HTTP layer.

  • US-ASCII

  • ISO-8859-1

  • UTF-8

  • UTF-16

  • UTF-16BE

  • UTF-16LE

  • UTF-32

  • UTF-32BE

  • UTF-32LE

If you have any questions about whether a character set is accepted or supported, contact LogScale Support Team.