Splunk cost calculator
Estimate what you could stop paying Splunk to ingest
Splunk bills by the gigabyte you ingest. Much of that volume — health-check noise, debug logs, duplicated fields — never earns its keep. Enter your numbers to estimate the backend cost a source-side filtering layer removes, netted against LinkMesh licensing. Everything is editable, and every figure is an estimate for planning.
Estimated annual impact
- Current Splunk ingest
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- Volume removed
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- Backend savings / year
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- − LinkMesh licence / year
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- Estimated net saving / year
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Estimates only, for planning. Actual savings depend on your data, contract, and how aggressively you filter. LinkMesh does not set or represent Splunk pricing.
Where the volume goes
The reduction is not magic — it is ordinary OpenTelemetry processing applied at the Collector, before the data reaches Splunk. LinkMesh manages those processors across your fleet.
- Drop noisy logs — health checks, readiness probes, and polling chatter never reach a billed backend.
- Filter debug output — keep debug locally or in cheap storage; send only what Splunk needs to index.
- Sample high-volume events — statistically sample repetitive events instead of ingesting every one.
- Trim redundant fields — strip duplicated or unused attributes that inflate every event.
- Route selectively — send security-relevant logs to Splunk and the rest to object storage or a cheaper backend.
- Redact before egress — mask PII at the source, so sensitive data never lands in the index.
Put the estimate to the test
Stand up LinkMesh, point your collectors at it, and preview each filter against real records before you ship it. The first 25 Collectors are free after a no-card registration in the OpenSight Customer Portal (5 without one).