How big will my reporting database be?

When estimating the size of your Forcepoint reporting databases, keep the following factors in mind:

• Forcepoint DLP logs only data violations, which typically represent a small fraction of your total web and email volume.
• Forcepoint Email Security logs detected spam and quarantined email messages, which typically represent up to 90% of your email volume.
• Forcepoint Web Security and Forcepoint URL Filtering log all web transactions, which typically represent about 40% of your total web traffic volume when visits (the default) are recorded rather than hits. See Web visits, consolidation, and full URL logging, for details.
• If IPv6 is used in the deployment, the web protection Log Database may increase in size by approximately 4%.
  Warning: These are averages calculated across a large number of Forcepoint customers with widely varying deployments. While these numbers are useful for estimation, please analyze your system’s actual performance after a few days or weeks to reassess your database sizing needs.