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id: data-volume
title: Sumo Logic Data Volume App
sidebar_label: Data Volume
description: The Data Volume App provides you with a summary and detailed views of your account's data usage volume by data type, tier, category, collector, source name, and hosts via predefined searches and dashboards.
slug: /help/docs/integrations/sumo-apps/data-volume/
canonical: https://www.sumologic.com/help/docs/integrations/sumo-apps/data-volume/
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The Data Volume App provides you with a summary and detailed views of your account's data usage volume by data type, tier, category, collector, source name, and hosts via predefined searches and dashboards.
## Installing the Data Volume app
### Prerequisite
Enable the Data Volume Index (`sumologic_volume`) prior to installation. See [Data Volume Index](/docs/manage/ingestion-volume/data-volume-index/log-tracing-data-volume-index/) for instructions.
import AppInstallNoDataSourceV2 from '../../reuse/apps/app-install-index-apps-v2.md';
## Viewing Data Volume Dashboards
import ViewDashboards from '../../reuse/apps/view-dashboards.md';
### Overview
The **Data Volume - Overview** dashboard helps you understand your ingest in terms of Logs (by Tiers), Metrics, and Tracing capabilities.
Use this dashboard to:
* Identify the top sources, collectors, or hosts by ingesting data volume across logs, metrics, and traces
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### Logs
The largest data ingest typically comes from log volumes. The **Data Volume - Logs** dashboard allows you to view your log ingest volume by tier by ingesting spikes, outliers, and quota.
Use this dashboard to:
* Determine the log ingest volume and trends in GB across various tiers.
* Identify spikes where current hour ingestion is above 50% from the last hour. Identify outliers and forecast your data ingestion.
* Determine the log data for default index and top non-default indexes.
* Compare current ingestion to capacity and review any overages. You must configure the “Daily_Log_Ingest_Capacity” variable based on your Account Subscription. If you have Credit based plan, please check with your account executive to determine these values for your account. Otherwise, see the [**Account Overview**](/docs/manage/manage-subscription/sumo-logic-credits-accounts/#account-overview) page to get your capacity values.
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### Data Volume Logs by Metadata Fields
The **Data Volume - Logs** by Metadata Fields dashboard allows you to view log ingest volume by tier, source categories, collectors, and hosts.
Use this dashboard to:
* Identify the top 5 sources categories, source hosts, and collectors by ingest volume
* Examine ingestion trends over time
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### Metrics
The **Data Volume - Metrics** dashboard allows you to view your metrics ingested, identifies ingest outliers/spikes, and helps predict what ingestion is going to be.
Use this dashboard to:
* Determine the ingested DPM by various dimensions.
* Examine trends over time.
* Identify the spikes where current hour ingestion is above 50% from the last hour.
* Identify ingestion outliers and forecast data ingestion, analyze the comparison of your current ingestion to your capacity, and review any overages. You must configure the “Metric_DPM_Ingest_Capacity” variable that needs to be configured based on Account Subscription. If you have a Credit-based plan, please check with your account executive to determine these values for your account. Otherwise, see the [**Account Overview**](/docs/manage/manage-subscription/sumo-logic-credits-accounts/#account-overview) page to see your Capacity Values.
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### Log Spikes
The **Data Volume - Log Spikes** Dashboard helps you quickly identify significant increases in data ingested. Review details of your data ingested for logs.
Use this dashboard to:
* Identify ingest outliers
* Determine the spikes for top sources compared with the previous day
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### Capacity Utilization
The **Data Volume - Capacity Utilization** dashboard provides views of subscribed, actual, and percentage capacity utilization for logs and metrics.
Use this dashboard to:
* Identify the log and metrics ingestion capacity of your subscription. You must configure the "Daily_Log_Ingest_Capacity" and “Metric_DPM_Ingest_Capacity” variables based on your plan with Sumo Logic. If you have a Credit-based plan, please check with your account executive to determine these values for your account. Otherwise, see the [**Account Overview**](/docs/manage/manage-subscription/sumo-logic-credits-accounts/#account-overview) page to view the log ingest capacity value and metric DPM ingest capacity value.
* Identify the average ingestion and subscribed ingestion capacity by percentage for logs and metrics.
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### Tracing
The **Data Volume - Tracing** dashboard provides views of your Tracing data ingest by billed bytes and span counts per minute.
Use this dashboard to:
* Determine the ingested billedBytes/spansCount for tracing and examine trends over time.
* Identify spikes in ingestion, where ingestion for the current hour is above by 50% from the last hour.
* Identify the outliers (and forecast your data ingestion).
* Identify the top 5 source categories, source hosts, sources, and collectors by span count and billed bytes.
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## Create monitors for the Sumo Logic Data Volume app
import CreateMonitors from '../../reuse/apps/create-monitors.md';
### Data Volume app alerts
| Name | Description | Alert Condition | Recover Condition |
|:--|:--|:--|:--|
| `Data Volume - Daily plan limit alert` | This alert is generated when the daily account log ingest for the previous day is greater than the defined threshold. | Count > 100 | Count < = 100 |
| `Data Volume - Daily plan limit alert by collector` | This alert is triggered if the account log ingestion for any collector on the previous day exceeds the configured threshold. | Count > 5 | Count < = 5 |
| `Data Volume - Data not sent alert` | This alert is triggered when a collector has not sent any data for longer than the configured threshold (60 minutes by default). | Count > 60 | Count < = 60 |
| `Data Volume - Monthly plan limit alert` | This alert is generated when total log ingest for the current billing period reaches 85% or more (configurable). Ensure the query is updated with `daily_gb_limit` (GB/day) and `billing_start / billing_end` (day of month) before enabling. | Count > 85 | Count < = 85 |
| `Data Volume - Usage spike alert` | This alert is generated when the current hour’s ingestion (GB) for a source category exceeds its highest hourly volume from the past four weeks by the set threshold percentage value. | Count > 50 | Count < = 50 |
## Upgrade/Downgrade the Data Volume app (Optional)
import AppUpdate from '../../reuse/apps/app-update.md';
## Uninstalling the Data Volume app (Optional)
import AppUninstall from '../../reuse/apps/app-uninstall.md';