Terms

This topic describes terminology important to the Ingest monitoring app.

Data Entities

In the Ingest monitoring app, a data entity represents a combination of one or more of the following dimensions:

  • Host
  • Source
  • Source type
  • Index

These dimensions collectively define the data ingested into Splunk, allowing for more granular monitoring and analysis.

Latency

In the Ingest monitoring app, latency refers to the time elapsed between when an event is generated and when it is indexed in Splunk. For more information, see Latency in the Ingest monitoring dashboard.