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Presenting Splunk Large-Scale Design with Mermaid / Draw.io or similar products

koshyk — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 23:53:47 GMT

hi Folks,

I’m preparing to present a large-scale Splunk design to stakeholders and want to make it interactive. To achieve this, I’m considering using Mermaid, which allows us to start with code, iterate incrementally, and improve easily over time. Below is my initial draft of the design.

I’d appreciate your input on two points:

Are there any obvious mistakes in this draft? (It’s been a while since I last worked on Splunk design, especially after transitioning to Splunk Cloud.)
Are you aware of any pre-existing Mermaid or Draw.io diagrams for large-scale Splunk clusters that we could adapt or reuse?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

Re: Presenting Splunk Large-Scale Design with Mermaid / Draw.io or similar products

PickleRick — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:17:36 GMT

What do you mean by "interactive" here?

Why not just use SVA diagrams? https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SVA/current/Architectures/About

Re: Presenting Splunk Large-Scale Design with Mermaid / Draw.io or similar products

livehybrid — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:38:58 GMT

I'd definitely recommend looking at the SVA models that @PickleRick linked to.

I like the diagram-as-code approach with Mermaid but they arent the prettiest! If you do go down the draw.io route then there are some icons available at https://github.com/livehybrid/splunk_drawio_icons

Please let me know how you get on and consider adding karma to this or any other answer if it has helped.
Regards

Will

Re: Presenting Splunk Large-Scale Design with Mermaid / Draw.io or similar products

koshyk — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:21:59 GMT

Interactive in the sense, you can click in each and it can drill down into further details.

The main reason for diagram as a code is, we can maintain in version control

Re: Presenting Splunk Large-Scale Design with Mermaid / Draw.io or similar products

koshyk — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:22:51 GMT

thanks for the draw.io icons