https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitoring-console/m-p/438972#M5935 <P>What is the requirement to enable monitoring console.<BR /> I have small test environment. Can i merge MC with CM role<BR /> And <BR /> I believe i have to forward all instances internal logs to indesers ?</P> Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:34:51 GMT riqbal 2018-06-06T14:34:51Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitoring-console/m-p/438972#M5935 <P>What is the requirement to enable monitoring console.<BR /> I have small test environment. Can i merge MC with CM role<BR /> And <BR /> I believe i have to forward all instances internal logs to indesers ?</P> Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:34:51 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitoring-console/m-p/438972#M5935 riqbal 2018-06-06T14:34:51Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitoring-console/m-p/438973#M5936 <P>hello there<BR /> 1. yes, not ideal but yes<BR /> 2. yes forward all internal logs to indexers layer</P> Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:10:45 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitoring-console/m-p/438973#M5936 adonio 2018-06-06T15:10:45Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitoring-console/m-p/438974#M5937 <P>Hi riqbal,</P> <P>Splunk has server roles and that can be shared in same instances.Keep it in mind that sharing roles in single instance may lead to overhead but in your case it is small test environment.</P> <P>All instance internal logs to Indexer layer is the best practice but it is not mandatory.If you do so then it is easy to maintain index for all instances rather login to each instance.</P> Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:08:34 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Monitoring-Splunk/Monitoring-console/m-p/438974#M5937 ansif 2018-06-11T09:08:34Z