Splunk Enterprise Security

Per - result Alert

rvnk
Engager

I am a grad student and I recently gave a quiz on splunk. There was a true/false question.

Q: Splunk Alerts can be created to monitor machine data in real-time, alerting of an event as soon as it logged by the host. 

I marked it as false because it should be "as soon as the event gets indexed by Splunk" instead of "as soon as the event gets logged by the host". 

I have raised a question because I was not awarded marks for this question. But the counter was "Per-result triggering helps to achieve this". But isn't it basic that Splunk can only read the indexed data? Can anyone please verify if I'm correct? 

Thanks in advance.

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Real-time searches see events before they are indexed.

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