Description
Course Objectives
- Add information to dashboards and alerts for better troubleshooting
- Find insights using analytics and appropriate rollups in charts and detectors
- Create detectors for common use cases
Outline: Visualizing and Alerting in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (VASIM)
Topic 1 – Creating Efficient Dashboards and Alerts
- Add instructions to dashboards
- Create single-instance dashboards
- View events on dashboards
- Configure local data links
- Customize alert messages
- Troubleshoot charts and alerts
Topic 2 – Finding Insights Using Analytics
- Finding total value across all sources
- Combining plots in charts
- View and alert on weekly, daily or hourly comparisons
- Use percentages and ratios to understand trends
- Apply analytic functions over moving and calendar time windows
- Apply analytics functions to a subset of MTS in a signal
Topic 3 – Detectors for Common Use Cases
- Identify common issues with detectors
- Troubleshoot a detector
- Create detectors to monitor populations
- Create non-flapping detectors
- Monitor metrics with cyclic patterns
- Monitor large number of sources
- Monitor an ephemeral infrastructure
