https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Measuring-Splunkd-Uptime/m-p/329968#M3015 <P>Looking for a way to measure splunkd service uptime, and alert on when it's down. Not so much worried about system uptime itself, just want to look at measuring splunkd uptime. </P> Mon, 11 Sep 2017 22:13:39 GMT rgilliam01 2017-09-11T22:13:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Measuring-Splunkd-Uptime/m-p/329968#M3015 <P>Looking for a way to measure splunkd service uptime, and alert on when it's down. Not so much worried about system uptime itself, just want to look at measuring splunkd uptime. </P> Mon, 11 Sep 2017 22:13:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Measuring-Splunkd-Uptime/m-p/329968#M3015 rgilliam01 2017-09-11T22:13:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Measuring-Splunkd-Uptime/m-p/329969#M3016 <P>If your splunk is running on Unix systems, try installing the unix and linux add-on app then enable the script that captures the uptime of the processes. Then create a gentimes search that will alert you when the process is not running since there will be no logs that will indicate the process is down I believe. </P> Tue, 12 Sep 2017 03:34:05 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Measuring-Splunkd-Uptime/m-p/329969#M3016 lloydknight 2017-09-12T03:34:05Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Measuring-Splunkd-Uptime/m-p/329970#M3017 <P>You can run this search on your most widely peered Search Head (usually your Monitoring Console) and then check the responding peers against a <CODE>splunk_infrastructure_hosts.csv</CODE> lookup and then alert if any are not showing:</P> <PRE><CODE>|rest/services/server/info </CODE></PRE> Tue, 12 Sep 2017 05:05:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Measuring-Splunkd-Uptime/m-p/329970#M3017 woodcock 2017-09-12T05:05:01Z