Deployment Monitor

noun

A Splunk app that keeps track of all your Splunk instances. It provides detailed information on indexers and forwarders and offers early warnings for unexpected or abnormal behavior to help you troubleshoot problems such as missing forwarders or overloaded indexers. The Deployment Monitor helps you to effectively manage medium- to large-scale deployments.

The Deployment Monitor also tracks license usage and provides detail information on source types.

Related terms

For more information

In the Deploy and Use Splunk Deployment Monitor App manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time