Dashboards & Visualizations

Perfmon to metrics in 7.0

Jewatson17
Path Finder

what happens to perfmon data if we switch to use the new metrics feature in 7.0 (statsD, collectD, mstats)? What happens to the dashboards and alerts? Can they work hand in hand or not?

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asabatini23
Explorer

Hi,

looks like metrics collection is more performing than a event collection, also you have 2 methods to collect the data.

look the documentation

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.1/Metrics/GetMetricsInStatsd

Alessandro

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