LFA · capacity model

Fidelity & Data-Point Calculator

Model how many telemetry data points an LFA run stores — full 15-minute fidelity versus a policy that keeps older data in coarser time slots, while coarser rollups stay alongside the finer recent data.

Full fidelity Aggregated

Network & metrics

Size of a single network

Nodes

Edges

Run scale

Number of networks

Retention window months

Metrics stored full fidelity

Metrics per node

Metrics per edge

Metrics stored every aggregated window

Metrics per node

Metrics per edge

Also store a min set and a max set in every aggregated slot, each at full-fidelity metric counts

Per 15-min slot · one network: — · all networks: — Per aggregated slot · all networks: —

Aggregation policy

Each rule says: data older than X months is also kept in a coarser time slot. A coarser slot is retained from now back to the age where data drops below it — so recent periods hold the fine data and every coarser rollup at once. Rules apply by age, youngest first; every aggregated window uses the same metric counts set above.

BASE

15-min fidelity

full-fidelity metrics · recent window

Result

over 60 months

Reduction vs full fidelity

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Full fidelity

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With aggregation

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Bytes per data point optional

Full: — Agg: —

How it's calculated

your numbers, step by step

Resolution layers

nested · each kept back to here

Each resolution is stored from now back to the age where data becomes coarser than it, so the finer recent periods also hold every coarser rollup. Bar length = how far back that resolution is kept across the retention window.

now

Per-resolution breakdown

Resolution	Node m.	Edge m.	Kept to	Slots	Data points	% agg
Total						100%

Model · for each resolution: slots = (months kept × 43,200) ÷ slot-minutes, rounded; points = slots × networks × (nodes·node-metrics + edges·edge-metrics). Totalled across all resolutions.

Aggregated slots · the node/edge metric counts shown for coarser resolutions are the effective stored counts: aggregated set + a full-fidelity min set + a full-fidelity max set.

Coverage · a resolution is kept from now back until data drops below it (the next coarser rule's threshold), so coarse rollups overlap the finer recent periods.

Time basis · 1 month = 30 days, 1 year = 365 days.