A lesser known element that can affect server, and ultimately website, performance are the conditions within the physical rooms where the servers reside. Poor operating environment conditions such as high humidity and temperature can lead to server failure or automatic safeguards invoked to shutdown servers to protect against total failure, thus impacting website performance and availability. Therefore, it is greatly beneficial to monitor all aspects of the physical operating environment, not just the server itself but the physical conditions it is subjected to.
In this recipe, you will write a Splunk search leveraging the new metrics data type index ...
