Could you help me figure out how Insights for Infrastructure could help me with my environment?

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Guys, this looks like a cool product but I have to say I'm unsure of exactly where it can fit into my environment! I have a windows estate with the usual DHCP, AD,Exchange. What value would i get from this free product? Is the 200GB limit an overall one or within a certain time period?

[abrown_splunk · Accepted solution]

Hi Shocko,
This product would help you monitor the boxes those services are running on themselves. Not the state of AD or Exchange as much as the CPU, I/O, Disk, etc.

If you're running the splunk APP for infrastructure, the license limit is whatever your enterprise license is but if you're truly running the INSIGHT (no other splunk install at all), you have a 200GB rolling retention license, which means you can retain the last 200GB of data you've ingested, which will keep information on your environment for quite a while.

[shocko]

Thanks! The rolling 200GB is useful. I guess I'd better install it and try it out to see what 'insights' it offers.