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The PowerScale App for Splunk can be installed as a stand-alone, distributed, or cloud-based application.
A stand-alone deployment is a single instance of Splunk Enterprise that performs all data processing functions. Both the App and Add-on must be installed on this single instance.
In distributed deployment, processes are distributed across multiple Splunk Enterprise instances running on multiple machines. The following table shows where the App and Add-on are installed when a distributed deployment is used.
PowerScale App for Splunk element | Splunk process | ||
Heavy forwarder | Indexer or indexer cluster | Search head or search head cluster | |
Add-on | ✔ | — | ✔ |
App | — | — | ✔ |
For information about installing the Add-on in Splunk Cloud, see Install an Add-on in Splunk Cloud Platform on Splunk> Docs.