Splunk supports a distributed environment. Now, when it is said that Splunk supports a distributed environment, what does this actually mean? What is the use of Splunk being deployed in a distributed environment?
Splunk can be deployed in a standalone environment and in a distributed environment as well. Let us understand what a standalone environment, a distributed environment, and index replication are.
In a standalone environment, various components of Splunk, like the indexer or search head are available on a single machine, which handles everything from on-boarding data on Splunk, indexing the data, analytics and visualization, reporting, and so on. Generally, standalone is used for development and testing purposes; it is not at all recommended for deployment scenarios.