https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-DCN-Better-than-syslog-and-SNMP/m-p/639030#M109117 <P>We are in the process of deploying DCNs to collect telemetry on our VMware environment.&nbsp; As we deal with the relatively hefty system requirements, I am wondering why this is a better option than relying on our SNMP monitoring tool (that is integrated with Splunk)?&nbsp; Doing so would save us the resource overhead and the single points of failure that the DCNs create.</P><P>Any features or metrics that we'll forego if we don't use DCNs?</P> Thu, 06 Apr 2023 14:48:15 GMT mWp 2023-04-06T14:48:15Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-DCN-Better-than-syslog-and-SNMP/m-p/639030#M109117 <P>We are in the process of deploying DCNs to collect telemetry on our VMware environment.&nbsp; As we deal with the relatively hefty system requirements, I am wondering why this is a better option than relying on our SNMP monitoring tool (that is integrated with Splunk)?&nbsp; Doing so would save us the resource overhead and the single points of failure that the DCNs create.</P><P>Any features or metrics that we'll forego if we don't use DCNs?</P> Thu, 06 Apr 2023 14:48:15 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Why-is-DCN-Better-than-syslog-and-SNMP/m-p/639030#M109117 mWp 2023-04-06T14:48:15Z