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+---
+id: sumo-logic-limits
+title: Sumo Logic Limits and Quotas Reference
+sidebar_label: Limits and Quotas
+description: A comprehensive reference of quotas, limitations, and maximum values across Sumo Logic services.
+---
+
+This page lists the baseline limits and quotas for various features, services, and components within Sumo Logic.
+
+## Alerts and monitors
+
+- **[Maximum number of monitors (active and inactive)](/docs/alerts/monitors/monitor-faq/#is-there-a-limit-to-the-number-of-monitors-i-can-have)**. Up to 5,000 (can be increased by contacting support).
+- **[Email notifications](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#general)**. Up to 100 recipients.
+
+### Log monitors
+
+| [Plan](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#log-monitors) | Max Log Monitors |
+|:-------------------------|:-----------------|
+| Enterprise, Trial        | 1,000            |
+| Essentials, Professional | 300              |
+| Free Trial               | 50               |
+
+- **[Query length](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#general)**. Up to 15,000 characters.
+- **[Execution delay](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#general)**. 2 minutes (to allow for ingestion lag).
+
+### Metric monitors
+
+| [Plan](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#metrics-monitors) | Max Metric Monitors |
+|:-------------------------|:--------------------|
+| Enterprise, Trial        | 1,500               |
+| Essentials, Professional | 500                 |
+| Free Trial               | 50                  |
+
+- **[Aggregate monitor](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#general)***. Can evaluate up to 15,000 time series.
+- **[Non-aggregate monitor](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#general)**. Can evaluate up to 3,000 time series.
+- **[Execution delay](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#metrics-monitors)**. 1 minute.
+- **[Query limit](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#general)**. Up to 6 queries.
+
+### Notification grouping
+
+- **[Log monitors](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#alerts)**. Always group notifications.
+- **[Metric monitors](/docs/alerts/monitors/overview/#alerts)**. Can group notifications, resolving when all time series return to normal.
+
+### Unsupported features in monitors
+
+- **[Receipt Time](/docs/search/get-started-with-search/build-search/use-receipt-time)**. Not supported.
+- **[LogReduce](/docs/search/behavior-insights/logreduce/logreduce-operator) and [LogCompare](/docs/search/behavior-insights/logcompare) operators**. Not supported.
+- **[Frequent](/docs/manage/partitions/data-tiers) and [Infrequent](/docs/manage/partitions/data-tiers) data tiers**. Not supported.
+- **[Save to Index](/docs/alerts/scheduled-searches/save-to-index) and [Save to Lookup](/docs/alerts/scheduled-searches/save-to-lookup)**. Not supported.
+- **[Search templates](/docs/search/get-started-with-search/build-search/search-templates.md)**. Not supported.
+- **[`timeshift` metrics operator](/docs/metrics/metrics-operators/timeshift)**. Not supported in Metric Monitors.
+
+### Alert response
+
+- **Related Alerts and Monitor History**. Shows the top 250 alerts.
+- **Alert Visualization**. Only shown for alerts less than 30 days old.
+- **Alert List**. Displays up to 1,000 alerts triggered within the past 30 days.
+
+### Scheduled searches
+
+- **Maximum searches**. Up to 6,000 per account.
+- **Timeout**. One-third of search range (min 3 minutes, max 120 minutes).
+- **Emails per search**. Up to 120 emails per day.
+- **Webhook connections**. Limited to 512 records.
+- **Row extraction**. Limited to 100 unique rows per trigger.
+- **Infrequent Data Tier**. Not supported.
+
+## Collectors and Sources
+
+- Maximum number of collector per organization is 10,000.
+- A single installed collector can handle up to 15,000 events per second.
+- Log messages greater than 64KB are truncated.
+- A collector or source can have up to 10 fields.
+- A collector can have up to 1,000 sources.
+- Multiline logs are limited to 2000 lines or 512KB.
+- Maximum of 100 processing rules per source.
+- The number of Cloud-to-Cloud Sources is limited to 20 for free accounts, and 50 for all other accounts.
+- You are warned when you reach 80% of the Cloud-to-Cloud Sources limit (16 Sources for free accounts, and 40 Sources for other accounts).
+
+## Log Search
+
+- **Query length**. Up to 15,000 characters.
+- **Results limit**. Only the first 100,000 messages are included. If your time range includes more than 100,000 messages, your source message may not be highlighted in the returned results.
+- **Surrounding messages**. Also limited to 100,000. If your time range includes more than 100,000 messages, your source message may not be included in your returned results.
+- **Search Job API limit parameter**. Max 10,000 records.
+
+### Subquery limits
+
+- Up to 10,000 unique results (rows) from the child query.
+- Up to 100MB of memory to return those results.
+- Subqueries are not supported in:
+    - Auto-refresh dashboards.
+    - Field Extraction Rules.
+    - Scheduled Views.
+
+### Metric query limits
+
+|Property|Limit|Error Message|
+|:---|:---|:---|
+|Query Rows|6|Too many query rows ([number of rows]). The limit is: [limit].|
+|Query String Length|1500 chars|Too long ([queryLength] characters). The limit is: [limit].|
+|Max Number of Operators|60|Too many operators: [number of operators]. The maximum number of possible operators is: [limit].|
+|Max Number of Selectors|50|Too many selectors: [number of selectors]. The maximum number of possible selectors is: [limit].|
+|Max Time Range|1000d|The given time range was invalid.|
+|Max Quantization Interval|30d|The given quantization was too big.|
+|Max Timeshift|1000d|The given timeshift was too big.|
+
+## Platform service
+
+- **Playbook actions**. Limited to 350 actions per hour per organization.
+
+## Cloud SIEM
+
+- **Signal limits**. Up to 100,000 signals/hour or 1 million/24 hours.
+
+## Field extraction
+
+- **Field name limit**. Up to 200 Field Extraction Rules per org.
+- **Field name (key) length**. Up to 255 characters.
+- **Field value length**. Up to 200 characters.
+- **Custom field limit**. Up to 400 for Enterprise and Enterprise Suite users.
+- **Shared quota**. Field Extraction Rule and metadata fields share the 200-field limit.
+- **Subqueries**. Not supported.
+- **HTTP request field limit**. Up to 30 fields.
+
+## Partitions
+
+- **Maximum partitions**. Up to 50 per account.
+- **Optimal size**. Between 1%–30% of daily ingest. Ideally, with less than 5 TB data per day flowing into each.
+  - Below 1% can cause index fragmentation and degraded search performance.
+  - Above 30% may reduce performance gains.
+- **Name restrictions**. Cannot start with `sumologic_` or an underscore (`_`).
+- **Routing rule length**. Up to 2048 characters.
+- **Unsupported conditions**. Do not use the `NOT` operator or `sourceHost` when defining partitions.
+
+## Scheduled views
+
+- **Maximum views**. Up to 500 per account.
+- **Start date**. Cannot select a date older than 365 days.
+- **Unsupported**. Subqueries and Field Extraction Rules are not supported.
+
+## Users and roles
+
+- **Users**. Up to 1,000 per account.
+- **Roles**. Up to 100 per account.
+- **Naming**. Role names must use alphanumeric characters or underscores (`_`).
+- **Free accounts**. Limited to 3 users.
+
+## Accounts
+
+### Free accounts
+
+- **Daily ingest**. 500 MB per day.
+- **Retention**. 7 days for logs.
+- **Storage**. Up to 4 GB.
+- **Users**. Up to 3.
+- **Continuous queries**. Up to 20.
+- **Dashboard panel time range**. Up to 7 days.
+
+### Trial accounts
+
+- **Daily ingest**. 1 GB per day.
+- **Retention**. 30 days for logs.
+- **Users**. Up to 20 users.
+
+### Essentials and Enterprise accounts
+
+- **Retention**. Varies based on subscription.
+- **Users**. Can be scaled to meet organizational needs.
+
+### Cloud Flex Legacy accounts
+
+- **Collectors**. Maximum of 10,000 Collectors per organization.
+- **Sources**. Maximum of 1,000 Sources per Collector.
+- **Processing Rules**. Maximum of 100 Processing Rules per Source.
+- **Continuous Queries**. Maximum of 200 queries per organization (excluding Free accounts).
+
+### Flex accounts
+
+#### Free flex accounts
+
+- **Daily Credit Allocation**. 1.25 credits per day.
+- **Retention**. 7 days for logs.
+- **Users**. Limited to 3 users.
+
+#### Trial flex accounts
+
+- **Daily Credit Allocation**. 1 GB per day.
+- **Retention**. 30 days for logs.
+- **Users**. Up to 20 users.
+
+## Dashboards
+
+- **Panel queries**. Up to 6 log and 6 metric queries.
+- **Queries per dashboard**. Up to 100.
+- **Data points per query**. Dashboard queries cannot return more than 1,440 data points.
+- **Query length**. Queries built for dashboards/panels have a limit of 10,240 characters.
+- **Time range**. Up to 32 days per panel.
+- **PDF Export timeout**. Will timeout after 5 minutes if a panel takes too long to load.
+- **Template variable queries**. Up to 10 concurrent queries per user.
+- **External sharing**. Dashboards shared outside an organization are view-only.
+- **Time range support**. Only relative time supported (e.g., Last 15 Minutes). Absolute time ranges are not supported.
+
+## SLO
+
+- **Data Retention**. 800 days.
+
+## Metric
+
+### Metric retention
+
+| Data Type Retained | Retention Period |
+|:--|:--|
+| Raw                    | 30 days      |
+| 1-hour resolution      | 13 months    |
+
+### Host metric source limits
+
+- **Disk metrics**. Approximately 10 metrics are collected for each Source disk on each host.
+- **Network metrics**. Network metrics are calculated per interface on each host, and approximately 4 metrics per interface are collected.
+- **CPU, memory, and TCP metrics**. Approximately 10 CPU, memory, and TCP metrics are collected for each host.
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ module.exports = {
         'get-started/apps-integrations',
         'get-started/library',
         'get-started/system-requirements',
+        'get-started/sumo-logic-limits',
         'get-started/ai-machine-learning',
         'get-started/keyboard-shortcuts',
         'get-started/training-certification-faq',