Cisco E3A-SK-MDL-H-R-P Machine Data Lake Premium Retention

Add premium retained-data coverage to a Splunk Machine Data Lake environment with Cisco E3A-SK-MDL-H-R-P. The entitlement addresses machine data retained in the data lake and uses GB as its capacity measure. It is a digital software entitlement, not a rack-mount appliance, network interface, storage drive, or other physical component. Machine data commonly includes operational events, application logs, infrastructure telemetry, and security records collected from distributed systems. Retention capacity matters when teams need data to remain available for investigation, analysis, reporting, or operational review after collection. This SKU applies specifically to retained data in the Machine Data Lake context and includes the premium designation stated for the entitlement. Use this item where a Splunk deployment requires an identified amount of retained-data coverage expressed in GB. Its focus is retention rather than data collection hardware or network transport, making it relevant to environments where data-lake capacity is being defined independently from servers, storage media, and ingestion infrastructure. The SKU’s TTL and HIP designations distinguish its entitlement configuration within the Machine Data Lake retained-data offering.