diff --git a/docs/best-practices.md b/docs/best-practices.md index 81f38a751f..2a786b9758 100644 --- a/docs/best-practices.md +++ b/docs/best-practices.md @@ -534,6 +534,10 @@ For [batch processor][batch_processor]: *We could say that `send_batch_size` is a soft limit and `send_batch_max_size` is a hard limit of the batch size.* +In Helm Chart's default configuration, `send_batch_max_size` is set to `2 * send_batch_size`. +It is necessary to consider changing the value of `send_batch_max_size` whenever `send_batch_size` is changed. +More information can be found in [sumologic-otel-collector's documentation][sumo-otelcol-batching-doc]. + For [sumologic exporter][sumologic_exporter]: - `max_request_body_size` defines maximum size of requests to sumologic before compression. @@ -552,6 +556,7 @@ For [sumologic exporter][sumologic_exporter]: [batch_processor]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/v0.47.0/processor/batchprocessor#batch-processor [sumologic_exporter]: https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-otel-collector/tree/v0.50.0-sumo-0/pkg/exporter/sumologicexporter#sumo-logic-exporter [filling_up_alert]: https://runbooks.prometheus-operator.dev/runbooks/kubernetes/kubepersistentvolumefillingup/ +[sumo-otelcol-batching-doc]: https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-otel-collector/blob/main/docs/best-practices.md#using-batch-processor-to-batch-data ### Compaction