Select the answer that displays the accurate placing of the pipe in the following search string: index=security sourcetype=access_* status=200 stats count by price

The selected answer accurately demonstrates the proper usage of the pipe operator within a Splunk search string. In Splunk, the pipe is used to chain commands together and to pass the results from one command to the next.

In the case of the search string where you're trying to retrieve events from the index named "security," of sourcetype that matches "access_*," and where the status is 200, the correct placement of the pipe occurs right after the filtering conditions. This allows the subsequent command, stats count by price, to process only the events that match the specified criteria — namely, to count occurrences grouped by the "price" field.

Using the pipe after the status conditions effectively limits the scope of what the stats command will analyze, ensuring accurate statistical computation based on the filtered dataset.