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SPLK-1003 · Question #150

What event-processing pipelines are used to process data for indexing? (select all that apply)

The correct answer is B. Parsing pipeline D. Indexing pipeline. Splunk uses the parsing pipeline and the indexing pipeline to process data for indexing. The parsing pipeline handles line breaking and timestamp extraction, while the indexing pipeline writes finalized events to disk.

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Question

What event-processing pipelines are used to process data for indexing? (select all that apply)

Options

  • ATyping pipeline
  • BParsing pipeline
  • Cfifo pipeline
  • DIndexing pipeline

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    9% (3)
  • B
    85% (28)
  • C
    6% (2)

Why each option

Splunk uses the parsing pipeline and the indexing pipeline to process data for indexing. The parsing pipeline handles line breaking and timestamp extraction, while the indexing pipeline writes finalized events to disk.

ATyping pipeline

The typing pipeline is not a recognized stage in Splunk's documented event-processing pipeline architecture - the standard indexing pipelines are parsing and indexing.

BParsing pipelineCorrect

The parsing pipeline processes incoming raw data by performing line breaking, charset conversion, timestamp recognition, and metadata tagging before events are passed downstream for indexing.

Cfifo pipeline

The fifo pipeline is not a valid Splunk event-processing pipeline - it does not exist in Splunk's documented data processing architecture.

DIndexing pipelineCorrect

The indexing pipeline receives events from the parsing stage, applies index-time transforms and field extractions defined in transforms.conf, and writes the processed events to the index buckets on disk.

Concept tested: Splunk event-processing pipeline stages for indexing

Source: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Deploy/Datapipeline

Topics

#Event processing#Data ingestion#Pipelines#Indexing process

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