Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Review

We use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring across enterprises as a standard infrastructure monitoring solution for various mission-critical business application systems. We had set up pub/sub architecture to collect streaming analytical data. We mostly use it for on-premises devices. Operations teams rely on its alerting capabilities to ensure system uptime and act on some proactive metrics like CPU utilization and disk spaces full, etc.

System health metric visibility is of paramount importance for operations to maintain business availability and improve resilience. Most of the capacity planning and projected workload anticipation calculations were based on infrastructure monitoring and metrics. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has great analytics options and features to aid in all these critical operations. Real-time events monitoring helps to maintain SLA by proactively engaging on performance deterioration.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring supports easy user management and provides flexibility to set up multiple teams with different access and quota level. Using this different departments and application teams are managed in Splunk. We use AD GROUPS for role management with different teams.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has AI-based analytics which has many helpful in-built features especially alerting based on historical trends are very useful for determining unusual surges and analyze root causes for them.