Monitoring system properties

This article provides a list of the different monitoring system properties along with their corresponding description.

• Datadog

• Amazon CloudWatch

• InfluxDB

• Elasticsearch

• SignalFx

• Splunk

Datadog

Name

The name of the monitoring report.

Datadog API Key

The API key to access Datadog.

Amazon CloudWatch

Name

The name of the monitoring report.

Namespace

The namespace — container for CloudWatch Metrics.

Region

The CloudWatch AWS region.

InfluxDB

Name

The name of the monitoring report.

Connection String

The connection string to connect InfluxDB.

User

The InfluxDB user.

Password

The InfluxDB password.

Database Name

The database name.

Retention Policy

(Optional) The retention policy in InfluxDB.

Enable gzip

Enable gzip compress for the HTTP request body.

Elasticsearch

Name

The name of the monitoring report.

Connection

Choose your Elasticsearch connection from the list of connection or configure a new one.

Index Type

(Optional) The type of the index.

SignalFx

Name

The name of the monitoring report.

SignalFx Auth Token

The auth token.

SignalFx Region

The region where your SignalFx environment runs.

Splunk

Name

The name of the monitoring report.

Splunk Deployment Name

The deployment name.

For self-service accounts with a URL in the structureprd-p-xxx.cloud.splunk.com, the deployment name is: p-xxx.

For managed accounts with a URL in the structure XXX.splunkcloud.com, the deployment name is: XXX.

Is Managed

True if you are using a managed Splunk account and False otherwise.

This can be inferred from the URL of your account:

• splunkcloud.com usually means managed

• cloud.splunk.com usually means self-service

Splunk HTTP Event Collector Token

The HEC token.

Enables sending data over HTTP (or HTTPS) directly to Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud.