Monitor Cisco AI PODs

Gain full visibility into your Cisco AI PODs infrastructure components and the enterprise AI applications running on them using Splunk Observability Cloud.

Cisco AI PODs provide a pre-validated and modular infrastructure for enterprise AI applications. To learn more about Cisco AI PODs, see Cisco AI PODs At-a-Glance.

This solution uses the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to collect metrics and metadata from your infrastructure components and AI applications.

Supported environments

Splunk Observability Cloud supports monitoring Cisco AI PODs components deployed on Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift clusters.

Supported components

Splunk Observability Cloud supports monitoring the following Cisco AI PODs components.

• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers

• Cisco Nexus data center switches

• NVIDIA GPU

• NVIDIA NIM

• Storage solutions

  • NetApp storage

  • Pure Storage

Get started with monitoring Cisco AI PODs

Complete the following high-level steps to monitor Cisco AI PODs.

1. Install the Collector for Kubernetes to monitor Cisco AI PODs.

2. Configure data collection from your Cisco AI PODs components:

   1. Cisco United Computing System (UCS) servers

   2. Cisco Nexus

   3. NVIDIA GPU

   4. NVIDIA NIM

   5. NetApp storage

   6. Pure Storage

3. After you set up data collection from Cisco AI PODs, you can monitor their performance using built-in experiences in Splunk Observability Cloud. For more information, see Monitor the performance of Cisco AI PODs.