Whats the best way to monitor deployment activity?

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Anyone know the best way to monitor deployment activity of a splunk server? I've found DeploymentMetrics coming from the deployment serer, and I see DeploymentClient and DeployedApplication messages being forwarded from my deployment clients.

There seem to be cases where I see deployments occuring on the clients (reported by DeployedApplication), but I don't see them in DeploymentMetrics. Has anyone else observed anything like that?

Anyone have any helpful deployment tracking searches they would like to share?

Here is the basis of my existing searches:

Search 1:

index="_internal" sourcetype="splunkd" source=*metrics.log Component="DeploymentMetrics"

Search 2:

index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd Component="DeployedApplication"

Update: Note. If your using Splunk 4.1, then you have to replace Component with component. (These kind of upgrade bugs really can take a lot of time to straighten out.)

Answer 1

Similar searches

If you want to see apps that have been recently installed/updated

source="*splunkd.log" index=_internal "DeployedApplication - Checksum mismatch" OR "Installing" | rex "app: (?<app_name>\\w*)"

If you want to see which clients have "phoned home" for updates:

 source="/opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/splunkd_access.log" index=_internal /services/broker/phonehome | rex "/services/broker/phonehome/connection_[\\d|\\.]*_\\d*_(?<src>.*)_(?<client>.*)_" | dedup client

If you want to see your forwarders restarting (not directly related to the deployment, but still helpful)

source="*splunkd.log" index="_internal" ShutdownHandler punct="--_::.____-____._"

And this was helpful when my server classes overlapped and hosts were sending data to two indexers

source="*splunkd.log" index="_internal" "Connected to" | rex "Connected to (?<indexer>.*)" | stats count by host,indexer | stats count by host | search count>1

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