Nagios Monitoring of Splunk ideas vs Splunk self monitoring

[ojay]

Hi all,

I'm currently thinking about what to monitor on application level from Splunk Servers using Nagios.

Can you give me some ideas and possibilities?

I could not find any good ideas in the "Splunk Add-on for Nagios" documentation.

And i would like to have an overview about what is best to monitor using Nagios and what with Splunk self monitoring.

I would appreciate iIf you can point me to the right direction. 

Best,

Oj.

[schose]

Hi Oj,

i wrote several blogposts about monitoring splunk using nagios on batchworks.de: one thing you would like to monitor is e.g. license usage on your licenseserver. a cornercase is to monitor for old ufs.. 

out-of-the-box there good checks are included in the Managementconsole. Those alerts should trigger your nagios.

in the end i would suggest an "end-to-end" test using a technical user and doing a search in you splunk instance - by using rest api for example. At you could be quite sure that everthing is running smooth. 

those test including basic os montoring should be a good start.

regards,

Andreas