In Splunk data is stored into buckets. Not real bucket filled with water but buckets filled with data. A bucket in Splunk is basically a directory for data and index files.
The next thing we wondered was: what kind of data does Splunk store?
A Splunk index stores the raw data in compressed form along with index files that contain metadata that is used to search the event data. For indexes, it supports gzip (default), lz4, and zstd for compression and can handle different buckets compressed with different algorithms.
How does Splunk indexer work?
Splunk indexer will index the data to Series of Events. Both the raw data and also the indexed data will be present in the Splunk later., 1 Where do these data get stored ?
Yet another query we ran across in our research was “How do I extract data from a Splunk index?”.
One source claimed all data is always stored in Splunk’s index, no matter where it came from originally. You can extract this data in a number of ways – either search for a subset of data that you’re interested in and export it, or grab all data from an index and extract it using tools such as Splunk’s exporttool.
What is a Splunk license?
A Splunk license is based on organizations’ quantity and usage, which are examined daily. Splunk works through a forwarder collecting data from remote machines and forwarding it on to an index. An indexer then processes that data in real time and stores and indexes it on the disk.
We should figure it out. after you configure the inputs or enable an app, your Splunk deployment stores and processes the specified data. You can go to either the Search & Reporting app or the main app page and begin exploring the data that you collected.