Deployment Architecture

Forwarding Linux command outputs to dashboard

qazwsxedc994
Explorer

I'm struggling to understand how I would get the output of a linux command such as vmstat or iostat into splunk where i can use the output to create a time graph.

Can someone point me in the right direction at all?

Thanks Steve.

acharlieh
Influencer

If you're interested in specifically in the output of vmstat and iostat and other standard *nix monitoring scripts, maybe you would want to look into leveraging the work already done in the Splunk App for Unix and Linux. There's an Add-on that you deploy and configure on your forwarders to gather data on those remote systems, and there's docs about the App and the AddOn on docs.splunk.com

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