limits.md

copyright	lastupdated	keywords	subcollection
years 2024	2024-10-08		cloud-logs

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{{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} limits

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{{site.data.keyword.logs_full}} has limits that need to be considered when using the service. {: shortdesc}

Character support

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{{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} does not provide full Unicode support for multibyte characters.

Limits per instance

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{{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} has limits for each provisioned instance.

Item	Limit
Alerts	500
Parsing rules	70
Enrichments	10
Events to Metrics labels	8
Ingestion log size	32 K
Largest log size processed by the pipeline	33 K
Branches	1500
Query time range	8 days
Maximum number of fields	1500
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Log ingestion limits

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When you send data to an {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}} instance:

• Logs cannot be older than 24 hours.
• Logs cannot be more than 4 hours into the future.

For a single ingestion request {{site.data.keyword.logs_full_notm}}, these limitations exist:

• request_timeout: 30 seconds
• request_body_limit_bytes: 10 MiB

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