Hardware and software requirements for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Add-on

To install and configure Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Add-on, your system must meet the following requirements.

Splunk admin requirements

You must be a member of the admin or sc_admin role to install and configure Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Add-on and to use the custom search command.

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring setup requirements

You must have a Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring account already set up. See Set up Infrastructure Monitoring.

The Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Add-on requires an access token and an API endpoint domain to access data from Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring. For setup instructions, see Set up the Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Add-on.

Splunk platform requirements

Because this add-on runs on the Splunk platform and Splunk Cloud, all of the system requirements apply for the Splunk software that you use to run this add-on.

• For Splunk Enterprise system requirements, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual.
• For Splunk Light system requirements, see System Requirements in the Splunk Light Installation Manual.
• If you are managing on-premises forwarders to get data into Splunk Cloud, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual, which includes information about forwarders.