Explore your deployment
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Explore your deployment
You can use Splunk's Deployment Monitor app to manage and troubleshoot your distributed deployments. The home page for this app is a dashboard that provides charts with basic stats on index throughput and forwarder connections over time. It also includes warnings for unusual conditions, such as forwarders that appear to be missing from the system or indexers that aren't currently indexing any data.
The charts, warnings, and other information on the home page provide an easy way to monitor potentially serious conditions. The page itself provides guidance on what each type of warning means. For detailed information on warnings, see the topic "Troubleshoot your deployment".
Underneath each chart, there's a link, View results. Click this link to view the raw data behind the chart, as well as the originating search command. Here’s the top half of the home dashboard, with the View results links circled:
Note: You can modify the underlying searches for any of the charts or warnings. For example, you might want to change the scheduled search frequency to suit your specific needs. To access the chart searches, click the View results link below the chart. To access the warning searches, click the green arrow to the right of the warning.
In addition to the dashboard, the app includes several other pages that provide detailed information on indexers, forwarders, source types, and licensing. You can reach these pages from links near the top of the dashboard. See the topic "Drill for details".
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 4.2 , 4.2.1 , 4.2.2 , 4.2.3 , 4.2.4 , 4.2.5 , 4.3 , 4.3.1 , 4.3.2 , 4.3.3 , 4.3.4 , 4.3.5 , 4.3.6 View the Article History for its revisions.