Monitoring Splunk

How to monitor Splunk changes?

guarisma
Contributor

Hello,

Looking for a way to monitor certain operational changes in Splunk like:
- A new sourcetype has been created.
- A new Input has been created.
- An input was removed/deleted.
- An Alert or Report was created or deleted.

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You should use version control for any conf changes made to your indexers, search heads, deployment servers, etc.. You can also leverage the internal log to answer the alert/report modification

index=_audit

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guarisma
Contributor

What event will tell me a new index was created in Splunk Cloud?

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yeah, this is available in the audit index too. Please accept the answer if this answered your questions

index=_audit action=indexes_edit

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