Customer wants alerts data to be retained for a month online and complete data for 6 months offline, What is additional storage required for this?

Customer wants alerts data to be retained for a month online and complete data for 6 months offline, What is additional storage required for this?

Actually this depends on how many alerts are coming today and how much it is expected to increase over time. You can check the per day size of vunet-1-1-notification-xxxx.xx.xx indices for the last X days you are currently retaining and check the max size consumed on a day. Then you can try to use this kind of calculations

Max size consumed per day  (Only primary shards) = 30MB

Add about 30% buffer =~ 50MB

Size Per Month you need on /data disks = 1.5 GB

In case you need replication (only if you have multiple analyzers), you need double the space (~3GB)

For offline archival space, Lets assume 20% month on month increase in alerts, Total size you need for 6 months is approx 9GB of space in any offline archive partition. Only primary shard space is considered for archives.

Hope this helps.