To which location should unwanted events be routed to disregard them from the daily license quota?

Routing unwanted events to the null queue is an effective strategy for managing your daily license quota in Splunk. When events are sent to the null queue, they are essentially discarded and will not consume any license capacity. This is particularly important for ensuring that you stay within licensed limits while still ingesting necessary data.

The null queue allows administrators to filter out events that are irrelevant or redundant, such as debug logs from applications or any other noise that does not contribute meaningful insights. By using this mechanism, organizations can optimize their data ingestion processes and focus on valuable data without worrying about exceeding licensing constraints.

Other options like the home queue, log queue, and temp queue serve different purposes and do not provide the same benefit in terms of disregarding events from the license quota. The home queue typically holds events for search jobs, the log queue is used for storing log data that needs to be processed, and the temp queue may hold temporary data for processing but does not specifically address the challenge of avoiding license overages.