Buttercup is deploying Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI). The IT department provides the following information: Item Count KPIs 900 Entities 1500 Glass Tables 10 Service Definitions 20 Which…

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• AThe number of KPIs tracked
• BThe number of glass tables present
• CThe number of entities
• DThe number of service definitions

• A
  86% (37)
• B
  2% (1)
• C
  5% (2)
• D
  7% (3)

Explanation

Splunk IT Service Intelligence documentation clearly identifies Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as the dominant driver of ITSI resource consumption. KPIs generate continuous searches, threshold evaluations, anomaly detection calculations, and aggregation workloads. Each KPI contributes to CPU utilization, search concurrency, memory usage, and storage growth through KPI summaries and historical data retention. As the number of KPIs increases, the number of concurrent background searches rises significantly, directly affecting search head and indexer Entities and service definitions primarily define metadata and relationships and have comparatively lower performance impact. Glass tables are purely visualization components and have minimal effect on backend resource sizing. Splunk explicitly states that deployment sizing for ITSI must begin with KPI count, followed by consideration of search frequency and data volume per KPI. Thus, the correct answer is A: The number of KPIs tracked. Splunk IT Service Intelligence Installation and Resource Planning Guide; ITSI KPI Performance Characteristics; ITSI Architecture Overview.

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