How to interpret DMC iostats reports

[a212830]

Hi,

We just upgraded to Splunk 6.4.1 this weekend (yay team!). I'm looking into the awesomeness of the DMC, and two reports have me perplexed - the "Maximum IO Bandwidth" and the "Median Disk Usage". I have a fair amount of "red" in those reports. I clicked on the "learn more" link, but all it does it take me to the main Splunk doc page. Can someone explain these reports? I've attached an example.

[sloshburch]

Quick lazy thought: did you post this question (or a link to this answers post) on the corresponding dashboard's doc page? At the bottom (footer) of the docs page should be a place to ask this to get them to clarify in the docs the answer to your question.

[ddrillic]

I'm looking at our own 6.4.1 DMC.

I see the following when we look at Resource Usage: Instance

We see two mount points while in your case we don't see them and simply the disk usage against these file systems.

Looking under Resource Usage: Deployment at the Median Disk Usage and we see the graph you posted. One way is to look at the search it generates -

`dmc_set_index_introspection` search_group=* search_group=* sourcetype=splunk_disk_objects component=Partitions             
| eval mount_point = 'data.mount_point'             
| eval free = if(isnotnull('data.available'), 'data.available', 'data.free')             
| eval pct_disk_usage = 1 - free / 'data.capacity'             
| `dmc_set_bin_for_timechart_for_disk_usage`             
| eval server_mount_point = host.":".mount_point             
| stats Median(pct_disk_usage) as pct_disk_usage by server_mount_point _time             
| `dmc_disk_usage_rangemap_and_timechart`