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What are the best event-data inputs for basic server & OS monitoring?

sloshburch
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Splunk Employee

I want to implement the basic key searches defined in What are the best practice searches for Server & OS monitoring. There appears to be many potential inputs for data collection in the OS's add-ons. What are the necessary data inputs to make the basic key searches work correctly?

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sloshburch
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