Splunk Inc.

Kan Wu

Alan Vincent Hardin

Fang I Hsiao

Asmita Puri

Tristan Antonio Fletcher

Alok Anant Bhide

Nicholas Matthew Tankersley

Arun Ramani

Ian Edward Torbett

James Wang

A method includes selecting, from content packs in a centralized content management system, a content pack to update in a data intake and query system. The content pack includes utility objects. For each utility object of at least a subset of the utility objects determining whether the utility object already exists in the data intake and query system, and loading the utility object to the data intake and query system when the utility object does not exist to obtain an updated utility object. The method further includes monitoring, by the data intake and query system, an endpoint of an endpoint type using the updated utility object.

Content pack management

One or more lower-tier system monitoring components are installed and operated prior to installing a higher-tier system monitoring component. A lower-tier system may be an individual server, network device, or local area network. A higher-tier system may include an enterprise or organization wide network or service that includes at least a part of the lower-tier system. Once the higher-tier system monitoring component is installed, the higher-tier and lower-tier system monitoring components use an interface to operate with one another to form a single larger instance of an organization wide monitoring system. The combination of the higher-tier system monitoring component and the one or more lower-tier system operating components performs monitoring aspects of the overall information technology environment based at least in part on machine data produced and made searchable to provide monitoring results.

Lower-tier application deployment for higher-tier system

Information technology environment monitoring systems, for example, perform analytics over machine data received from networked entities. Outputs of such a system may be useful to help a user identify a problem and resolve an incident. Inventive aspects enable user interactions to trigger automatic connection with network servers to establish communication channels for conveying analytics and other information related to the problem between and among network nodes participating in the resolution of the problem or incident.

Collaborative incident management for networked computing systems

Lower-tier application deployment for higher-tier system data monitoring

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Cupertino, CA, United States of America

Kan Wu