Your go-to app for data unit conversion, comparison and sizing
Logcaliper is a tool that helps IT professionals understand the volume of data they are dealing with when designing a big data or security information and event management (SIEM) solution. It allows users to convert various data sizes and rate units, estimate storage capacity for long-term retention, and size and scope their log management/SIEM solutions. Logcaliper can quickly and easily convert message rates per second, hour, day, month, or year, as well as bits and bytes. It is available for free on iPhones and iPads, making it a convenient tool for IT professionals to use on the go.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Conversion of various data units
- Ability to choose between decimal or binary conversion modes
- Database of average log sizes for common products, based on real-world data from millions of log samples
- Customizable average log size
- Support for creating a list of log sources
- Estimation of storage capacity requirements
- Estimation of distributed storage cluster size (e.g., number of Hadoop nodes)
- Email export of results
- Customizable log retention period
- Calculation of weighted mean log size for a list of log sources
- Rounded and simplified results for easier reading
- Internationalization of numbers format
- Requires iOS 15 or higher