Introduction to ITE Work

Splunk IT Essentials Work (ITE Work) is a free app that helps you start monitoring and analyzing your IT infrastructure.

ITE Work includes data integrations and investigation tools for operating systems, virtual infrastructures, and containers. Use ITE Work to automatically discover and bring in data in the form of entities. An entity represents an IT component that requires management to deliver an IT service. Entities are usually hosts, but can also be items such as cloud or virtual resources, network devices, or applications. Related dashboards are also created as part of the entity integrations. These dashboards give you insight into the health and performance of your entities.

ITE Work is available both for Splunk Cloud Platform customers and Splunk Enterprise customers.

Get started with IT Essentials Work

To install IT Essentials Work and start monitoring your IT infrastructure, see Install IT Essentials Work and Set up Splunk IT Essentials Work.

What can I do with IT Essentials Work?

Find information about the tasks you'd like to perform in the following table:

Task	Tool	Documentation
Automatically discover and create entities from onboarded data for known entity types.	Entity integrations These default entity integrations are available in ITE Work: Unix and Linux Windows VMware vSphere Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring	See What is an entity integration?.
Import additional entities into ITE Work.	Entity discovery searches	See ITE Work Entity discovery searches.
Classify data sources and create statistical calculations to measure the health of the data source.	Entity types and vital metrics	See Overview of entity types in ITE Work.
Get a holistic view of all entities in your environment, as well as the health of those entities across various platforms.	Infrastructure Overview dashboard	See About the Infrastructure Overview in ITE Work.
Investigate alerts caused by changes in the vital metrics for entity types in your environment.	Alert Review dashboard	See Overview of Alerts Review in IT Essentials Work.
Install prepackaged content to quickly set up your ITE Work environment and start using the data you've brought in.	Splunk App for Content Packs and Splunk Content Packs for ITSI and ITE Work	See Overview of the Splunk App for Content Packs
Upgrade to ITSI to unlock service insights and event analytics capabilities.	License manager	See About Splunk IT Service Intelligence in the Splunk IT Service Intelligence Install and Upgrade Manual. See Install a license in the Splunk Enterprise Installation and Configuration Manual.