Splunk Interview Questions
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What is a lookup command?

166

Why use only splunk?

212

What are the unique benefits of getting data into a splunk instance via forwarders?

172

How to exclude some events from being indexed by splunk?

311

Explain search factor (sf) & replication factor (rf)?

278

What is the difference between search time and index time field extractions?

156

What are the defaults fields for every event in splunk?

179

Explain how data ages in splunk?

165

Why is splunk used for analyzing machine data?

155

Explain ‘license violation’ from splunk perspective.

339

Explain the splunk architecture?

174

What is the use of license master in splunk?

208

Explain search factor (sf)?

178

Why use only splunk? Why can’t I go for something that is open source?

182

Differentiate between inputlookup & outputlookup commands.

325


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Explain the output lookup command?

197


What is the use of tags in splunk?

189


List .conf files by priority?

219


Where is splunk default configuration stored?

220


What is the main difference between sort + and sort -?

274


Who are the biggest direct competitors to splunk?

197


What is splunk tool?

174


What is a replace command?

180


How to adds summary statistics to all results in a streaming manner?

188


Explain the difference between search head pooling and search head clustering?

176


What is the difference between splunk sdk and splunk framework?

166


Which splunk roles can share the same machine?

178


What is a null queue?

208


Give me the syntax of Case command?

180


Why use only splunk?

212