What sort of monitoring were you thinking about? Splunk offers a lot of options for log ingestion from Solarwinds (APM, NPM, etc. application logs) as well as things like extracting specific data sets directly from the Solarwinds DB for visualization and analytics of events. For example, you could use the DB Connect v2 Splunk app to pull alert history to help you analyze which nodes, types of objects, spexific objects, etc were triggering most often.
A word of caution though -- ingesting performance data via universal forwarders direct from monitored nodes is not a good idea. Sure, there are lots of apps that will help.you visualize that data in Splunk, but you are already collection that data in Solarwinds anyway and Splunk licensing is far more expensive than the equivalent functionality from Solarwinds. If you are hellbent on getting performance data, consider extracting it from the Orion DB via the DB Connect v2 app. No sense paying to collect the same data twice.
Let me know what you are thinking about doing. We're right in the middle of a pretty large Splunk implementation and I manage a pretty good size Solarwinds install too. (NPM, SAM, NTA, SRM, VMAN, etc.)
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