A company is planning a Splunk Enterprise deployment and has a requirement to support real-time monitoring of security events. The team is considering whether to use forwarders to send data directly to indexers or to use a heavy forwarder for data processing. Which factor is most important to consider when deciding the data flow architecture?

The number of users who will be searching the data.

The location of the data sources relative to the indexers.

The volume of data and the need for real-time processing versus the cost of additional hardware for heavy forwarders.

The operating system used by the servers generating the data.

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