Deployment Architecture

How to Check Server availablilty

mzemcik
New Member

Can someone tell me the best way to use splunk to check if a server is available. I am new at Splunk and would like to setup an alert when a server is not available. (Down).

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manjuase
Explorer

Hi mzemcik,

Did u get anything on this ?

I am also in same requirement.

If u give me the solution then that would be very helpful for me.

Thanks in advance

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MarioM
Motivator

well i would start first by the Splunk Tutorial which will take you through all the splunk features.

After that as there is different ways to monitor servers you should check the different apps:

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