How to use metrics indexes in Splunk | James H. Baxter posted on the topic | LinkedIn (2024)

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As a long-time Splunker, I have become increasingly aware of the existence and growth of ‘metrics’ data use in the IT industry, and my need to better understand how to work with Splunk’s metrics indexes. I recently had an opportunity to build an analytics solution in Splunk that leverages a metrics index – so I took some notes along the way, which I share in this series of articles. Metrics indexes are a bit of a different creature; if you’re just getting started on your metrics journey, I hope this info will help shorten your path.https://lnkd.in/gCwxwimUTL;DR“My simple definition and mental model of metrics indexes, based on a foundational understanding of events indexes, is that metrics indexes are designed to store numeric measurements in a highly efficient manner, and consist of events that contain just the four standard Splunk index fields: _time, source, sourcetype, and host, along with numeric measurements that are stored with a metric_name, and ‘dimension’s which are string fields that can be used for filtering and grouping the data sets.”

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