What are the best practice searches for network infrastructure monitoring?

[sloshburch]

I'd like to implement some basic searches for network infrastructure monitoring without getting caught up in the differences between sourcetypes and field names.

Are there any basic searches that provide middleware monitoring without me having to deal with the complexities of the sourcetype differences? Something akin to Network Traffic in the Common Information Model, perhaps?

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