How to Build Your Own Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
Replace Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring with a custom build. Real-time observability for cloud-native technologies and full-stack monitoring
Build Difficulty: 5/5
Build a working replacement in a weekend with AI tools
Estimated Timeline
Based on 43 features at Weekend Project difficulty, expect about One weekend with AI-assisted development.
Recommended Tech Stack
Full-stack React framework with API routes and server components
PostgreSQL database, auth, and real-time subscriptions
Utility-first styling for rapid UI development
Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 43 features
Access Control(3 features)
Control costs and permissions by enabling self-service development and ops teams with capacity limitations
Enable access to dashboard detectors by certain users and/or teams for enterprise consumption management
Allocate tokens to internal teams to manage usage at individual team level across organization
Alerting(3 features)
Dynamic thresholds and automatic baselining with data science instead of static thresholds to reduce alert storms
Built-in data science for instant and accurate alerts on dynamic thresholds, multiple conditions and complex rules with predictive analysis
Proactive alerts as you approach purchased capacity to manage costs and right-size deployments
Analytics(3 features)
Detailed usage reports and analysis to monitor usage, avoid overages, and identify optimization opportunities across teams
Applies analytics on metrics in-flight using streaming pub/sub bus for instant ingest, analyze and alert capabilities
Over 20 sophisticated analytics functions to analyze patterns and trends beyond raw metric data and basic functions
Developer Tools(3 features)
Self-service APIs enabling monitoring-as-code approach with automatic dashboard building and sophisticated ad-hoc queries
Analytics language for creating charts and alerts at scale via programmable APIs with monitoring-as-code approach
Infrastructure-as-code support for programmatic management of monitoring resources
Integration(3 features)
Ready-to-use integrations with popular OSS, cloud infrastructure and services that automatically pull standard metrics and feed pre-built dashboards
Integrations with all popular cloud providers and services (AWS, Azure, GCP) for fast time to value without managing agents
Carry context of charts into Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud for deeper insights with Content Pack for Infrastructure Monitoring
Pricing(3 features)
Commercial and Enterprise edition subscription plans with container allocation (10 per host for Commercial, 20 for Enterprise)
Usage-based pricing model ideal for serverless environments and cloud services without underlying host visibility
Volume discounts available for each pricing plan to reduce costs at scale
Compliance(2 features)
Complete Splunk Observability portfolio including Splunk IM is HIPAA compliant for safeguarding medical information
Annual SOC2 compliance certification focusing on security, availability and confidentiality
Data Management(2 features)
Independent data store optimized for human-readable metadata treating all dimensions and tags the same for efficient searching
Control metrics volume at the point of ingest with aggregation and data-dropping rules to reduce metrics volume and optimize spend
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