Splunk Interview Questions
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What is a lookup command?

160

Why use only splunk?

207

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

162

How to exclude some events from being indexed by splunk?

299

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

270

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

152

What are the defaults fields for every event in splunk?

167

Explain how data ages in splunk?

161

Why is splunk used for analyzing machine data?

147

Explain ‘license violation’ from splunk perspective.

329

Explain the splunk architecture?

164

What is the use of license master in splunk?

198

Explain search factor (sf)?

172

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

176

Differentiate between inputlookup & outputlookup commands.

315


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Un-Answered Questions { Splunk }

What are the defaults fields for every event in splunk?

167


What is the use of time zone property in splunk?

162


What is splunk db connect?

229


What are the lookup command and its use case?

155


Explain workflow actions?

187






Can you write down a general regular expression for extracting ip address from logs?

180


How would you handle/troubleshoot splunk license violation warning error?

185


What is sos?

178


List out various stages of bucket lifecycle?

159


What are the disadvantages of using splunk?

269


How is it possible to use the host value and not ip address or the dns name for a tcp input?

232


How can you extract fields?

161


What is the role of Deployment server?

202


Where to download splunk cloud?

159


What is the difference between search head pooling and search head clustering?

217