Splunk Fundamentals 1 Practice Exam

Are field values case sensitive in Splunk?

1. True

2. False

3. Only in certain conditions

4. Depends on the search mode

The correct answer is: False

Field values in Splunk are not case sensitive. This means that when you perform searches or queries, Splunk treats field values as equivalent regardless of the letter casing. For instance, if you search for a field value such as "Error", it will match values like "error", "ERROR", and "ErRoR" equally. This behavior helps streamline searches and makes data querying more intuitive, as users do not have to worry about the exact casing of their inputs when retrieving data or building queries. It's important to note that while field values themselves are case insensitive, field names may still reflect the case of the data as it appears in the source data inputs, but Splunk treats the values uniformly for matching purposes. In contexts where case sensitivity might be a concern, it's generally related to configurations outside the default Splunk behavior or specific use cases, but for standard field value comparisons, case sensitivity is not a factor.