Introduction to the Cloud Monitoring Console

The Cloud Monitoring Console (CMC) lets Splunk Cloud Platform administrators view information about the status of your Splunk Cloud Platform deployment. CMC dashboards provide insight into how the following areas of your Splunk Cloud Platform deployment are performing:

  • Data ingestion and data quality
  • Forwarder connections
  • HTTP Event Collection tokens
  • Indexing
  • Indexer clustering and search head clustering, if applicable
  • License usage
  • Search
  • User behavior
  • Workload management
Note: The Cloud Monitoring Console does not store or retain any customer data displayed in the dashboards. Customer data remains local to the customer stack.
Note: You must have the sc_admin (Splunk Cloud Platform Administrator) role to use the Cloud Monitoring Console.

Enable platform alerts

CMC provides alerting functionality with preconfigured platform alerts for missing forwarders and skipped searches that you can enable. If either alert is triggered, CMC displays a notification on the Triggered Alerts page. You can also set up custom alerts on the global Searches, Reports, and Alerts page, which is accessible from the Triggered Alerts page. For more information, see Use the Alerts panel.

Variables in panel titles

A number of panels in CMC have variable titles. You set the variable when you select a specific filter option in the panel. Panels with variable titles are noted in this manual.

Splunk Cloud Platform documentation

For more information about features and functionality of Splunk Cloud Platform, see the Splunk Cloud Platform documentation. The manuals hosted on this site provide comprehensive information on how to configure your deployment, search the ingested data, and create dashboards, visualizations, and reports for your data analysis. This site also hosts the CMC release notes, along with release notes for other Splunk Cloud Platform products.