Parsing phase versus parsing pipeline

[ddrillic]

Based on the documentation I read, it appears to me that the Parsing phase is comprised of the parsing pipeline, merging pipeline and the typing pipeline. Is this right? I also wonder at which stage the event is defined. Since the merging pipeline aggregates the lines, I assume that by the end of this merging pipeline, the event is defined. Is this right?

[ddrillic]

The second image keeps disappearing ; -)

[somesoni2]

See if this page helps answer you questions:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.3/Admin/Configurationparametersandthedatapipeline

[ddrillic]

Interesting thing. These pages are a bit different. The second is How Splunk processes data through pipelines and processes

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