Monitoring Console

Splunk administrators use the Monitoring Console delivered with Splunk Enterprise to monitor the health of their Splunk environment. As with all their products and components, Splunk provides nice documentation for the Monitoring Console as well. Documentation on the Monitoring Console can be found here: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/DMC/DMCoverview:

In the case of the Monitoring Console, the source of the data being shown is Splunk itself. Splunk is monitoring itself and providing important real time statistics on a variety of important topics. Some of the most commonly used areas of the Monitoring Console are:

• Search and indexing performance
• Operating system resource usage
• Index and volume usage
• Forwarder and TCP performance
• License usage

The hardware configuration used above is for demo purposes. Organizations will require more hardware resources to run Splunk based on data volume and search demands.

There is additional functionality in the Monitoring Console for monitoring the HTTP event collector and many other components of Splunk.

If your organization decides to use Splunk Cloud, you will still have access to the Monitoring Console to help you ensure that the Splunk environment you are paying for is working properly and license usage is appropriate for the amount of license capacity purchased.