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Per product system limits in Splunk Observability Cloud đź”—

Each Observability Cloud product has a maximum number of MTS you can create per minute. For example, if you create 5,500 MTS in the first minute in Infrastructure Monitoring, you’ll have to wait until the next minute to create more MTS. However, in the first minute you can also create another 6,000 more MTS for any other product you use.

Caution

New MTS exceeding the limit are dropped without returning an error. Data points for existing MTS are still accepted.

MTS limits per product đź”—

The following table shows MTS creation limits for each Observability Cloud product:

Product

Default MTS-per-minute limit

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Infrastructure Monitoring

6,000 or determined by your subscription

System limits for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

APM

6,000 or determined by your subscription

Splunk APM system limits

RUM

6,000 or determined by your subscription

System limits for Splunk RUM

Synthetics

6,000 or determined by your subscription

N/A

Logs

N/A

Log Observer Connect limits

  • Infrastructure Monitoring limit includes MTS generated by Network Explorer and metrics pipeline management.

Set up limit alerting đź”—

You can set up metric limits alerting to manage your resource usage on a per product basis. Related metrics include:

Metric name

Description

sf.org.numMetricTimeSeriesCreatedByDatapointType

Number of MTS generated by each product

sf.org.limit.metricTimeSeriesCreatedPerMinute

MTS creations per minute limit for Infrastructure Monitoring in your organization

sf.org.apm.limit.metricTimeSeriesCreatedPerMinute

MTS creations per minute limit for APM in your organization

sf.org.rum.limit.metricTimeSeriesCreatedPerMinute

MTS creations per minute limit for RUM in your organization

sf.org.synthetics.limit.metricTimeSeriesCreatedPerMinute

MTS creations per minute limit for Synthetics in your organization

sf.org.numThrottledMetricTimeSeriesCreateCallsByDatapointType

Number of MTS that each product wasn’t able to create because you significantly exceeded your per minute MTS creation limit

sf.org.numDatapointsDroppedInTimeout

Number of data points Infrastructure Monitoring didn’t attempt to create because your account was throttled or limited in the previous few seconds and creation was unlikely to succeed

sf.org.apm.numDatapointsDroppedInTimeout

Number of data points APM didn’t attempt to create because your account was throttled or limited in the previous few seconds and creation was unlikely to succeed

sf.org.rum.numDatapointsDroppedInTimeout

Number of data points RUM didn’t attempt to create because your account was throttled or limited in the previous few seconds and creation was unlikely to succeed

sf.org.synthetics.numDatapointsDroppedInTimeout

Number of data points Synthetics didn’t attempt to create because your account was throttled or limited in the previous few seconds and creation was unlikely to succeed

See more in View organization metrics for Splunk Observability Cloud.

System limits and data throttling đź”—

Observability Cloud products have system limits to protect the service’s performance, stability, and reliability. If you exceed those limits, the platform might start to throttle the data you send in, and slow down ingest.

Note

Throttling starts after you’ve exceeded your system limits. All data sent within your limits is ingested.

You can track if your usage is reaching your subscription limits or if your data is being throttled with certain Observability Cloud’s org metrics. See how in Metrics that track data throttling.