Overview of content packs for ITSI and IT Essentials Work

Splunk Content Packs provide out-of-the-box content that you can use to quickly set up your Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) or IT Essentials Work (ITE Work) environment. This content can include preconfigured KPI base searches, service templates, saved glass tables, and other objects for use within ITSI or ITE Work.

Once installed, the objects within a content pack are configurable. If you want to change a search's frequency, adjust latency, or change calculation methods, you can edit the objects directly.

Most content packs process data collected through the use of Splunk add-ons. Add-ons collect host, network, and other data from computers that you install them on and map that data to a data model. Add-ons power the data underlying the metrics for each content pack. For more information, see About Splunk add-ons in the Splunk Add-ons manual.

The Splunk App for Content Packs

The Splunk App for Content Packs allows you to access content packs, preview their contents, and install them in your environment. Download the Splunk App for Content Packs on Splunkbase. The Splunk App for Content Packs is compatible with ITSI and ITE Work versions 4.9.0 and higher. As new content packs become available or existing content packs are updated, you can download the most recent version of the Splunk App for Content Packs to get this new content. When you install an updated version of a content pack, you can see which objects are new to the content pack.

Once you've installed the Splunk App for Content Packs, you can go to Configuration > Data Integrations > Add structure to your data to see the available content packs.

Install the Splunk App for Content Packs

To access the content packs on the Data Integrations page, you have to install the Splunk App for Content Packs. You can install the Splunk App for Content Packs on your Splunk Cloud Platform or on-premises environment. See Install the Splunk App for Content Packs for steps to install the Splunk App for Content Packs.

Content Packs in ITE Work

The Splunk App for Content Packs installs supported content packs in your ITE Work environment. You can only install entity-type objects in ITE Work. In addition to the content packs shown on the Data Integrations page under Add structure to your data, there are content packs that are automatically installed when you install the Splunk App for Content Packs. See the available content packs for a list of content packs available in ITE Work.

If you upgrade from ITE Work to ITSI, objects in your environment persist after the upgrade.

Available content packs

These content packs are available.

Content pack	Description	Index type	Supported Apps
Content Pack for Amazon Web Services Dashboards and Reports	Provides the elements necessary to monitor the health and availability of your AWS environment. This content pack is automatically installed when you install the Splunk App for Content Packs, so it doesn't have a chiclet on the Data Integrations page.	Events	ITSI and ITE Work
Content Pack for Example Glass Tables	Provides a starting point for monitoring various use cases on the glass table canvas.	None (Uses static example data)	ITSI
Content Pack for ITE Work Alert Routing	Extends the default ITE Work alert functionality by allowing you to take an external action when an alert is triggered, such as sending an email.	Events	ITE Work
Content Pack for ITSI Monitoring and Alerting	Provides a prescriptive blueprint for enterprise-wide alerting across all your ITSI services.	Events and Metrics (Most of the searches are based on events index)	ITSI
Content Pack for Microsoft 365	Provides the elements necessary to monitor the health and availability of your Microsoft 365 environment.	Events	ITSI and ITE Work
Content Pack for Microsoft Exchange	Provides the elements necessary to monitor the health and availability of your Exchange environment.	Events	ITSI and ITE Work
Content Pack for Monitoring Citrix	Provides a quick way to build ITSI services to monitor your Citrix virtual apps and desktop infrastructure.	Events and Metrics	ITSI
Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows	Provides the elements needed for monitoring your OS-level health related to Windows servers.	Events	ITSI
Content Pack for Monitoring Phantom as a Service	Provides knowledge objects to monitor the health of your Phantom server environment.	Events	ITSI
Content Pack for Monitoring Pivotal Cloud Foundry	Provides the elements necessary for monitoring your Pivotal Cloud Foundry deployment.	Events and Metrics	ITSI
Content Pack for Monitoring Splunk as a Service	Provides OS and application-level monitoring of your Splunk Enterprise environment.	Events	ITSI
Content Pack for Monitoring Unix and Linux	Provides the elements needed for monitoring your OS-level health related to Linux and certain types of Unix servers.	Events and Metrics	ITSI
Content Pack for NetApp Data ONTAP Dashboards and Reports	Provides the elements necessary to monitor the health and availability of your NetApp environment. This content pack is automatically installed when you install the Splunk App for Content Packs, so it doesn't have a chiclet on the Data Integrations page.	Events	ITSI and ITE Work
Content Pack for Shared IT Infrastructure Components	Supports approaches for mapping service dependencies within ITSI.	Events (Uses _internal index)	ITSI
Content Pack for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring	This content pack was replaced by the Content Pack for Splunk Observability Cloud in the version 1.4.0 of the Splunk App for Content Packs. See the Migrate from the Content Pack for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to the Content Pack for Splunk Observability Cloud topic for migration steps.
Content Pack for Splunk Observability Cloud	Bridges the data gap between ITSI and Splunk Observability Cloud by providing the functionality of Splunk Synthetic Monitoring, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, and Splunk Application Performance Monitoring in a single view.	Metrics	ITSI and ITE Work
Content Pack for Splunk Synthetic Monitoring	This content pack was replaced by the Content Pack for Splunk Observability Cloud in version 1.4.0 of the Splunk App for Content Packs. See the Migrate from the Content Pack for Splunk Synthetic Monitoring to the Content Pack for Splunk Observability Cloud topic for migration steps.
Content Pack for Third-Party APM	Provides the elements necessary to monitor the health of applications that use third-party APM tools (AppDynamics, DynaTrace, and New Relic).	Events	ITSI and ITE Work
Content Pack for Unix Dashboards and Reports	Provides reports, alerts, and dashboards for Linux and Unix management. This content pack is automatically installed when you install the Splunk App for Content Packs, so it doesn't have a chiclet on the Data Integrations page.	Events	ITSI and ITE Work
Content Pack for VMware Dashboards and Reports	Provides the elements necessary to monitor the health and availability of your virtual environments. This content pack is automatically installed when you install the Splunk App for Content Packs, so it doesn't have a chiclet on the Data Integrations page.	Events and Metrics	ITSI and ITE Work
Content Pack for VMware Monitoring	Provides the elements necessary to monitor the performance of the main components in a VMware vSphere environment.	Metrics	ITSI
Content Pack for Windows Dashboards and Reports	Provides deep visibility into the health and performance of your Microsoft Windows Server and Active Directory environments.	Events	ITSI and ITE Work