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.
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)- A9% (3)
- B85% (28)
- C6% (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.
The typing pipeline is not a recognized stage in Splunk's documented event-processing pipeline architecture - the standard indexing pipelines are parsing and indexing.
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.
The fifo pipeline is not a valid Splunk event-processing pipeline - it does not exist in Splunk's documented data processing architecture.
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
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