KPI reference for the Content Pack for Monitoring Splunk as a Service

These tables list the KPIs used to monitor the health of your Splunk hosts in the Content Pack for Monitoring Splunk as a Service.

Splunk Instance Metrics Template

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Instance Metrics service template:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Error count 5 min/5 min lookback
Erroring Hosts 5 min/5 min lookback
Installed Apps 15 min/15 min lookback
Login Errors 5 min/5 min lookback
SSL Errors 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk OS Metrics Template

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk OS Metrics service template:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Average Disk Read I/O 5 min/5 min lookback
Average Disk Write I/O 5 min/5 min lookback
Average I/O Service Time 5 min/5 min lookback
Average I/O Wait Time 5 min/5 min lookback
CPU Cores 5 min/5 min lookback
CPU Normalized Load 5 min/5 min lookback
CPU Utilization 15 min/15 min lookback
Disk Read Kpbs 5 min/5 min lookback
Disk Used 5 min/5 min lookback
Disk Utilization 5 min/5 min lookback
Disk Write Kpbs 5 min/5 min lookback
Installed Memory 5 min/5 min lookback
Memory Utilization 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk ES Metrics

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk ES Metrics service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Average Correlation Run Time 5 min/5 min lookback
Correlation Lag Time 5 min/5 min lookback
Max Correlation Run Time 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk Forwarder

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Forwarder service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Connection Count 5 min/5 min lookback
Forwarder Count 5 min/5 min lookback
Forwarder Throttled 5 min/5 min lookback
GUIDs Per Hostname 15 min/15 min lookback
TCP EPS 5 min/5 min lookback
TCP Kbps 5 min/5 min lookback
Throughput 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk Indexer Buckets

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Indexer Buckets service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Cold Buckets 5 min/5 min lookback
Hot Buckets 5 min/5 min lookback
Thawed Buckets 5 min/5 min lookback
Total Buckets 15 min/15 min lookback
Warm Buckets 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk Indexer Cluster Metrics

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Indexer Cluster Metrics service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Cluster Health Check 5 min/5 min lookback
Cluster Manager Slow Response 5 min/5 min lookback
Cluster Peer Slow Response 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk Indexer Data

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Indexer Data service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Data Truncation Issues 5 min/5 min lookback
Future Timestamps 5 min/5 min lookback
Line breaking Issues 5 min/5 min lookback
Parsing Issues 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk Indexer Index Metrics

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Indexer Index Metrics service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Events Indexed 5 min/5 min lookback
Per Host Throughput 5 min/5 min lookback
Per Index Throughput 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk Indexer Queues

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Indexer Queues service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Aggregate Queue Fill 5 min/5 min lookback
Current Time in Queue 5 min/5 min lookback
Current Queue Size 5 min/5 min lookback
Indexing Queue Fill 5 min/5 min lookback
Max Time in Queue 5 min/5 min lookback
Max Queue Size 5 min/5 min lookback
Parsing Queue Fill 5 min/5 min lookback
Typing Queue Fill 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk Indexer Search Metrics

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Indexer Search Metrics service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Average Historical Searches 5 min/5 min lookback
Average Real-time Searches 5 min/5 min lookback
Enqueue Searches 5 min/5 min lookback
Max Historical Searches 5 min/5 min lookback
Max Real-time Searches 5 min/5 min lookback
Max Running Searches 5 min/5 min lookback
Max Search Runtime 5 min/5 min lookback
Skipped Searches 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk ITSI Metrics

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk ITSI Metrics service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Average Runtime 5 min/5 min lookback
Index Lag 5 min/5 min lookback
Indexed Events 5 min/5 min lookback
ITSI Internal Search Failed 5 min/5 min lookback
ITSI Log Errors 5 min/5 min lookback
ITSI Log Warnings 5 min/5 min lookback
ITSI Refresh Queue Data Count 5 min/5 min lookback
KPI Count 5 min/5 min lookback
KPI Search Failed 5 min/5 min lookback
Max Runtime 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk License Metrics

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk License Metrics service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
License Usage by Index 5 min/5 min lookback
License Usage by Indexer 5 min/5 min lookback
License Usage by Sourcetype 5 min/5 min lookback
Licensed Event by Indexer 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk Search Head Cluster

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Search Head Cluster service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Bundle Replication Failure 5 min/5 min lookback
SHC Health Check 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk Search Head Users

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Search Head Users service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Average Runtime 5 min/5 min lookback
Max Runtime 5 min/5 min lookback
User Count 5 min/5 min lookback

Splunk Search Metrics

The following table lists the granularity of the KPIs in the Splunk Search Metrics service:

KPI KPI search schedule and lookback time
Average Search Runtime 5 min/5 min lookback
Executed Searches 5 min/5 min lookback
Execution Latency 5 min/5 min lookback
Max Search Runtime 5 min/5 min lookback
Skipped Count 5 min/5 min lookback
Skipped Searches 5 min/5 min lookback
Suppressed Count 5 min/5 min lookback