Explain how Splunk avoids duplicate indexing of logs.

1.	Explain how Splunk avoids duplicate indexing of logs.
Answer» Essentially, Splunk Fishbucket is a subdirectory within Splunk that is USED to MONITOR and track the extent to which the content of a file has been indexed within Splunk. The default location of the fish bucket subdirectory is: /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk It generally INCLUDES SEEKING pointers and CRCs (cyclic redundancy checks) for the FILES we are indexing so that Splunk knows whether it has already read them.

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Essentially, Splunk Fishbucket is a subdirectory within Splunk that is USED to MONITOR and track the extent to which the content of a file has been indexed within Splunk.

The default location of the fish bucket subdirectory is: /opt/splunk/var/lib/splunk

It generally INCLUDES SEEKING pointers and CRCs (cyclic redundancy checks) for the FILES we are indexing so that Splunk knows whether it has already read them.

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