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deployment monitor and SoS apps?

yoho
Contributor

Is there any benefit for this app if you've already installed SoS in your whole deployment ?

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hexx
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I'd say they are complementary.

The two apps were designed to be sisters, which is why you'll note a similarity in the CSS used. The S.o.S app has only recently started to sprout dashboards looking at the full picture of a deployment (Deployment Topology, Distributed Indexing Performance, Index Replication), whereas that typically is Deployment Monitor's bread and butter.

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hexx
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I'd say they are complementary.

The two apps were designed to be sisters, which is why you'll note a similarity in the CSS used. The S.o.S app has only recently started to sprout dashboards looking at the full picture of a deployment (Deployment Topology, Distributed Indexing Performance, Index Replication), whereas that typically is Deployment Monitor's bread and butter.

lguinn2
Legend

I think "no" for Deployment Monitor. SOS is newer and has many cool features. Deployment Monitor is older and does less.

The one thing I have used Deployment Monitor for: to steal and tweak some of its searches for ad hoc use. In particular, I liked some of its searches around monitoring volume of data from forwarders. Otherwise, I haven't used it since about Splunk 4.1...

IMO, SOS is much more actively used and supported.

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