Splunk Enterprise Security

How to manage reports and alerts for 150+ indexes?

sectrainingjk
Explorer

We have a ton of indexes and need to better understand which ones have stopped receiving events so that we can report and alert on them.

We have a Splunk Enterprise v7.3.3 distributed environment with multiple (non-clustered) indexers, and non-pooled search heads configured in standalone mode. Our DSV, SH, and ES are each individual hosts and our ES is configured as a secondary SH. We manage index changes via CLI edits of indexes.conf, a deployment app, and redeployment of server classes.

We currently use the below in a dashboard panel, which generates a list of all "0-count" indexes that haven't received events in over 24 hours, but as a static list, there's a lot of additional work to get a holistic view of what's changed and when. I'd prefer query logic over a new app, as we're already hoping to pare down some of (our own) 'bloat.'

## generates a list of all "0-count" indexes that haven't received events in over 24 hours...

|tstats count where (index=* earliest=-24h latest=now()) by index

|append [|inputlookup index_list.csv |eval count=0]

|stats max(count) as count by index

|where count=0

Thanks in advance!

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion
 This has been solved many times including:
 Meta Woot!: https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2949/
 TrackMe: https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4621/,
 Broken Hosts App for Splunk: https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3247/
 Alerts for Splunk Admins ("ForwarderLevel" alerts): https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3796/
 Splunk Security Essentials(https://docs.splunksecurityessentials.com/features/sse_data_availability/): https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3435/
 Monitoring Console: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/DMC/Configureforwardermonitoring
 Deployment Server: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/DepMon/latest/DeployDepMon/Troubleshootyourdeployment#Forwarde...

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