About the Splunk App for Infrastructure

Splunk App for Infrastructure is a tool that provides insight into the performance of Linux servers, Windows servers, Mac OS X servers, and Amazon EC2, ELB and EBS instances. Splunk App for Infrastructure utilizes metrics for performance monitoring, and log data for deep understanding and troubleshooting of your server infrastructure.

This guide provides information about how to administer Splunk App for Infrastructure, including adding data, advanced data collection tasks, creating alerts, configuring notifications, managing users and roles, ITSI integration, and troubleshooting.

Where to start

For instructions on how to install and set up Splunk App for Infrastructure in a single-instance or distributed deployment environment, see Install and Upgrade Splunk App for Infrastructure.

For instructions on how to administer Splunk App for Infrastructure, including adding data, advanced data collection tasks, creating alerts, configuring notifications, managing users and roles, and troubleshooting, see the sections in this guide.

For instructions on how to use an already configured instance of Splunk App for Infrastructure, see Use Splunk App for Infrastructure.

For information about new features, fixed issues, and known issues in this version of Splunk App for Infrastructure, see Release Notes for Splunk App for Infrastructure.