Which data pipeline phase is the last opportunity for defining event boundaries?

The correct answer is C. Parsing phase. Splunk's data pipeline has four phases in order: Input → Parsing → Indexing → Search. Event boundary detection (line breaking and multi-line event handling, governed by settings in props.conf such as LINE_BREAKER, SHOULD_LINEMERGE, and BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE) occurs during the…

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AInput phase
BIndexing phase
CParsing phase
DSearch phase

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A
2% (1)
B
4% (2)
C
95% (52)

Explanation

Splunk's data pipeline has four phases in order: Input → Parsing → Indexing → Search. Event boundary detection (line breaking and multi-line event handling, governed by settings in props.conf such as LINE_BREAKER, SHOULD_LINEMERGE, and BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE) occurs during the Parsing phase. Once data moves to the Indexing phase, events are already fully delimited and written to disk as discrete records-boundaries can no longer be changed. The Input phase (A) is too early; it handles raw data ingestion. The Indexing phase (B) writes already-parsed events. The Search phase (D) operates on already-indexed, boundary-defined events at query time.

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