MID Server sizing for Agent Client Collector for Visibility - Support and Troubleshooting

MID Server sizing for Agent Client Collector for Visibility Introduction This article lists out the MID server and instance sizing guidelines. These sizing guidelines are based on internal performance testing.

Purpose These sizing guidelines will help in estimating the MID server machine configurations like cpu cores, RAM and instance nodes.

Hardware Requirements of MID server host Following are the MID server sizing guidelines from multiple scenarios that are tested.

Host Configuration - Linux Server - 8 cores / 16GB RAM No of Instance Nodes - 6

Single MID server supports 1K agents

Heap Size 1GB No of Agents 1K Payload Size / Agent 551KB Installed Softwares 1500 Running Processes 500

Single MID server supports 8K agents

Heap Size 8GB No of Agents 8K Payload Size / Agent 551KB Installed Softwares 1500 Running Processes 500 Five MID server supports 50K agents (10K agents / MID)

Heap Size 8GB No of Agents 50K Payload Size / Agent 551KB Installed Softwares 1500 Running Processes 500 Note: These performance tests are conducted on 6 node instance.