Question: What is Splunk?
Answer:
The platform of Splunk allows you to get visibility into machine
data generated from different networks, servers, devices, and hardware.
It can give insights into the application management, threat
visibility, compliance, security, etc. so it is used to analyze machine data.
The data is collected from the forwarder from the source and forwarded to the
indexer. The data is stored locally on a host machine or cloud.