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Measuring storage speed I/O utilization by host

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I/O operations are time consuming and may impact the user experience. As a system administrator, you want to monitor disk operations and, when swapping is executed, to know when systems may slow down. 

How to use Splunk software for this use case

This search requires the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Windows or the Splunk Add-On for Unix and Linux, set up by a system administrator.  

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