Splunk® App for AWS (Legacy)

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On July 15, 2022, the Splunk App for AWS will reach its end of life (EOL). After this date, Splunk will no longer maintain or develop this product. Splunk App for AWS is used for both IT monitoring and security use cases because it provides dashboards for both ITOps and security teams. The IT monitoring functionality in Splunk App for AWS is migrating to a content pack in Data Integrations called the Content Pack for Amazon Web Services Dashboards and Reports. The security use case functionality in Splunk App for AWS is migrating to the new Splunk App for AWS Security Dashboards. For more about migration options, see this community post.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® App for AWS (Legacy). For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

Overview of the dashboards in the Splunk App for AWS

The Splunk App for AWS offers a variety of dashboards to give you insight into your AWS data.

If you do not see data in a particular dashboard panel, check the source type of the panel for which data is missing. For example, if your Configuration Changes panel on the Overview dashboard shows zeroes, but you know changes have been made in your AWS environment, search sourcetype=aws:config:notification to check that data is coming in to your Splunk platform from that source type. If you do not see events, troubleshoot that input with a Splunk administrator.

Dashboard Description Panel Source Type
Overview Gives a big picture overview of your AWS environment and status from different perspectives, including configuration changes, usage, security. If anything looks unusual, you can click a panel to drill down to a more detailed dashboard. Configuration Changes aws:config:notification
Notable CloudTrail Activity by Origin aws:cloudtrail
Compute Instances aws:description
Storage aws:description, aws:cloudwatch
Billing aws:cloudwatch, aws:billing
ELB aws:description, aws:cloudwatch
CloudFront aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Topology Displays the topology of your AWS resources and how they relate to each other. See Topology dashboard reference for the Splunk App for AWS for more details. Topology aws:config
Relationships aws:config
Usage aws:cloudwatch
Activity aws:cloudtrail
VPC Flow aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
IAM aws:config
Usage Overview Summarizes the usage of AWS services such as EC2 and EBS. EC2 and EBS aws:description
ELB aws:description, aws:cloudwatch
Max CPU Utilization - Last 7 Days Top 5 aws:cloudwatch, aws:description
Min CPU Utilization - Last 7 Days Top 5 aws:cloudwatch, aws:description
EC2 Instances Describes the usage of your EC2 instances. Running EC2 Instances aws:description
In-Use Reserved EC2 Instances aws:description
Unused Reserved EC2 Instances aws:description
Running EC2 Instances by Category aws:description
Running EC2 Instances by Region aws:description
Running EC2 Instances by Type aws:description
Running EC2 Instances by Type Over Time aws:description
Running EC2 Instances by Region Over Time aws:description
EC2 Spot Instances Details aws:description
EC2 Reserved Instances aws:description
High Utilization EC2 Instances aws:cloudwatch, aws:description
Low Utilization EC2 Instances aws:cloudwatch, aws:description
Individual EC2 Instance Allows you to look up the detailed usage of specific EC2 instances. EC2 Instance Details aws:description
Average CPU Utilization - Last 24h aws:cloudwatch
Total Network I/O - Last 24h aws:cloudwatch
Total Failed Status Checks - Last 24h aws:cloudwatch
Average CPU Utilization Over Time aws:cloudwatch
Total Network I/O Over Time aws:cloudwatch
Total Failed Status Checks Over Time aws:cloudwatch
EBS Volumes Describes the usage of EBS volumes. In-Use EBS Volumes aws:description
In-Use EBS Volume Size aws:description
EBS Snapshots Size aws:description
In-Use EBS Volumes by Type aws:description
EBS Volumes by Sizes aws:description
EBS Volumes by IOPS aws:description
Unused EBS Volumes aws:description
Non-Optimized EBS Volumes aws:description
EBS Volumes Without Recent (30 days) Snapshot aws:description
Standard EBS Volumes with IOPS > 95 - Last 7 Days aws:description, aws:cloudwatch
EBS Volumes with IOPS < 1 - Last 7 Days aws:description, aws:cloudwatch
Individual EBS Volume Allows you to look up the detailed usage of specific EBS volumes. EBS Volume Details aws:description
Average IOPS - Last 24h aws:cloudwatch
Total Read/Write - Last 24h aws:cloudwatch
Average Queue Length - Last 24h aws:cloudwatch
Average IOPS Over Time aws:cloudwatch
Total Read/Write Over Time aws:cloudwatch
Average Queue Length Over Time aws:cloudwatch
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Displays information about the ELBs in your environment. Total ELBs aws:description
Total Requests aws:cloudwatch
Unhealthy EC2 Instances aws:description
ELB Error Requests aws:cloudwatch
HTTP 4XX Responses aws:cloudwatch
HTTP 5XX Responses aws:cloudwatch
ELBs by Region aws:description
Requests by ELB aws:cloudwatch
Requests by HTTP Status Code aws:cloudwatch
Latency per ELB Over Time aws:cloudwatch
Requests per ELB Over Time aws:cloudwatch
Individual Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Allows you to look up detailed information about specific ELBs. Total Requests aws:cloudwatch
ELB Error Requests aws:cloudwatch
HTTP Error Requests aws:cloudwatch
Unhealthy EC2 Instances aws:description
ELB Details aws:cloudwatch
EC2 Instances aws:description
Latency Over Time aws:cloudwatch
Request Count Over Time aws:cloudwatch
HTTP Status Code Over Time aws:cloudwatch
Security Overview Displays the number of error events from different services. Drill down to more detailed dashboards from this overview. IAM Errors aws:cloudtrail
VPC Errors aws:cloudtrail
Security Group Errors aws:cloudtrail
Key Pair Errors aws:cloudtrail
Network ACL Errors aws:cloudtrail
Unauthorized Activity aws:cloudtrail
Authorized vs Unauthorized IAM Activity aws:cloudtrail
Authorized vs Unauthorized Activity by User aws:cloudtrail
Authorized vs Unauthorized Activity by Event Name aws:cloudtrail
IAM Activity Describes IAM activity in your environment, including the error events, which users have the most activity, activity over time, and the detailed list of error activities. Error Events aws:cloudtrail
Activity by User aws:cloudtrail
IAM Actions aws:cloudtrail
IAM Activity Over Time aws:cloudtrail
Authorized vs. Unauthorized Activity aws:cloudtrail
Detailed IAM Activity aws:cloudtrail
IAM Error Activity aws:cloudtrail
VPC Activity Describes VPC activity in your environment, including the error events, number of VPCs, activity over time, and the detailed list of error activities. VPCs aws:description
Error Events aws:cloudtrail
Network VPC Actions aws:cloudtrail
VPC Activity Over Time aws:cloudtrail
Detailed VPC Activity aws:cloudtrail
VPC Error Activity aws:cloudtrail
VPC Flow Logs - Traffic Analysis Provides an overview of your network traffic. Monitored Interfaces aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Traffic Protocols aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
All Traffic (GB) aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Traffic Destinations aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Traffic Sources aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Traffic Over Time by Interface (Top 5) aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Traffic Size by Protocol and Location aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Top Destination Addresses aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Top Destination Ports aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Top Source Addresses aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
VPC Flow Logs - Security Provides an overview of your rejected network traffic. Accepted vs. Rejected Over Time (Bytes) aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Accepted vs. Rejected Traffic by Location aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Top Rejected Destination Ports aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Top Rejected Source Addresses aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Top 50 Rejected Address Pairs aws:cloudwatchlogs:vpcflow
Security Groups Describes security group activity in your AWS environment, including error events, number of security groups and rules, any unused security groups, activity over time, and the detailed list of error activities. Security Groups aws:description
Security Group Rules aws:description
Error Events aws:cloudtrail
Security Group Actions aws:cloudtrail
Unused Security Groups aws:config
Security Group Activity Over Time aws:cloudtrail
Security Group Activity aws:cloudtrail
Authorize and Revoke Activity aws:cloudtrail
Security Group Error Activity aws:cloudtrail
Key Pairs Describes the key pair activity in your AWS environment, including error events, the number of in-use key pairs, which key pair is most used, activity over time, and the detailed list of error activities. In-Use Key Pairs aws:description
Error Events aws:cloudtrail
Key Pair Actions aws:cloudtrail
Key Pair Usage aws:description
Key Pair Activity Over Time aws:cloudtrail
Key Pair Activity aws:cloudtrail
Key Pair Error Activity aws:cloudtrail
Network ACLs Describes the Network ACL activity in your AWS environment, including error events, the number of Network ACLs, activity over time, and the detailed list of error activities. Network ACLs aws:description
Error Events aws:cloudtrail
Network ACL Actions aws:cloudtrail
Network ACL Activity Over Time aws:cloudtrail
Detailed Network ACLs Activity aws:cloudtrail
Network ACL Error Activity aws:cloudtrail
User Activity Describes user activity in your AWS environment, including the number of active users, error/unauthorized activities, activity over time, and list of activities. You can also filter activities by ARN or username. Active Users aws:cloudtrail
Error Activities aws:cloudtrail
Unauthorized Activities aws:cloudtrail
User Activity Over Time aws:cloudtrail
User Activity Grouped by Event Name aws:cloudtrail
Resource Activity Shows the resource changes over time and the detailed change list. Changes Over Time aws:config:notification
Changes by Resource Type aws:config:notification
Resources aws:config:notification
CloudFront Distribution Traffic and error metrics about your CloudFront distribution. Total Requests aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Error Requests aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Total Request Traffic aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Total Response Traffic aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Cache Hit Ratio aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Traffic Size by Location (Bytes) aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Request Count by Location aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
HTTP Status aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
User Agents aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
CloudFront Edge Details aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Top URLs aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Top Request by Edge Location aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Slowest Requests aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Heaviest Traffic Requests aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Latency Over Time aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
Traffic (MB) Over Time aws:cloudfront:accesslogs
ELB Access Log Data from your ELB access logs. Total Entries aws:elb:accesslogs
Total ELBs aws:elb:accesslogs
Unique Clients aws:elb:accesslogs
Total Data Sent aws:elb:accesslogs
Total Data Received aws:elb:accesslogs
Traffic Size by Location (Bytes) aws:elb:accesslogs
Request Count by Location aws:elb:accesslogs
Error Entries aws:elb:accesslogs
Average Processing Time aws:elb:accesslogs
Top Error-Causing Requests aws:elb:accesslogs
Error Count aws:elb:accesslogs
Top Time-Consuming Requests aws:elb:accesslogs
Processing Time (ms) aws:elb:accesslogs
S3 Access Log Data from your S3 access logs. Total Requests aws:s3:accesslogs
Error Requests aws:s3:accesslogs
Total Traffic aws:s3:accesslogs
Average Processing Time aws:s3:accesslogs
Traffic Size by Location (Bytes) aws:s3:accesslogs
Request Count by Location aws:s3:accesslogs
HTTP Status aws:s3:accesslogs
S3 Error Code aws:s3:accesslogs
Top User Agents aws:s3:accesslogs
Top Requests aws:s3:accesslogs
Request Count Over Time aws:s3:accesslogs
Top Error Requests aws:s3:accesslogs
Error Count Over Time aws:s3:accesslogs
Estimated Billing - Current Month Projected AWS bill information based on your CloudWatch billing metrics.
Note that the Total Projected Cost -- This Month and Cost Projection Over Time panels rely on at least two data points before a projection can appear, thus these panels show "No results found" for the first few days of each new month.
Estimated Cost - Month to Date aws:cloudwatch
Total Projected Cost - This Month aws:cloudwatch
Estimated Cost by Account aws:cloudwatch
Estimated Cost by Service aws:cloudwatch
Month over Month Comparison - Daily Cost aws:cloudwatch
Cost Projection Over Time aws:cloudwatch
Estimated Cost by Account and Service - Month to Date aws:cloudwatch
Monthly Billing Displays your monthly billing cost up to but excluding the current month. AWS continues to update the monthly billing report several days after the last day of a calendar month, so you may see some fluctuation in the most recent monthly charge during the first few days of a new month.
Note that the Cost by Region panel is not available in consolidated accounts and show incomplete costs in nonconsolidated accounts if your bills include items that do not have region information associated with them.
Cost by Account aws:billing
Cost by Service aws:billing
Cost by Region aws:billing
EC2 Cost by Instance Type aws:billing
EBS Cost by Usage Type aws:billing
Month over Month Comparison aws:billing
Cost by Account and Service aws:billing
Detailed Billing Allows you to analyze your detailed billing history using your Detailed billing reports with resources and tags. Does not include data for the current month. Expect long load times for this dashboard due to the large amount of data in the Detailed billing report. Total Cost aws:billing
Cost Over Time aws:billing
Capacity Planning Allows you to analyze your usage to plan your capacity for upcoming months. Based on historical month data from Detailed billing reports with resources and tags. Total Instance Hours aws:billing
Percentage of On-Demand Hours aws:billing
Total Instance Cost aws:billing
Percentage of On-Demand Cost aws:billing
Instance Hours aws:billing
Last modified on 26 February, 2016
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