From f994fab102ab23fcb2af577389481b83f6c34c4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mkarlstrand-splunk <49571555+mkarlstrand-splunk@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 14:38:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update faq.md --- docs/faq.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md index 8d6a4dd..a3aad88 100644 --- a/docs/faq.md +++ b/docs/faq.md @@ -49,6 +49,6 @@ Long lived TCP connections cause well known problems OpenShift doesn't actually use Podman, it uses a library to wrap OCI that Podman also uses. this wrapper around the wrapper has some shortcomings that prevent the service definitions SC4S requires. Basically, K8s was built for a very different set of problems than syslog -## Q: If the XL reference HW can handle just under 1 TB/day how can SC4S be scaled to handle large deployments of many TB/day? +**Q: If the XL reference HW can handle just under 1 TB/day how can SC4S be scaled to handle large deployments of many TB/day?** A: SC4S is a distributed architecture. SC4S instances should be deployed in the same VLAN as the source devices. This means that each SC4S instance will only see a subset of the total syslog traffic in a large deployment. Even in a 100+ TB deployment the individual SC4S instances will see loads in GB/day not TB/day.