Explanation
The following items in the phases below are listed in the order Splunk applies them (ie LINE_BREAKER occurs before TRUNCATE).
Input phase
inputs.conf
props.conf
CHARSET
NO_BINARY_CHECK
CHECK_METHOD
CHECK_FOR_HEADER (deprecated)
PREFIX_SOURCETYPE
sourcetype
wmi.conf
regmon-filters.conf
Structured parsing phase
props.conf
INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS, and all other structured data header extractions
Parsing phase
props.conf
LINE_BREAKER, TRUNCATE, SHOULD_LINEMERGE, BREAK_ONLY_BEFORE_DATE, and all other line merging settings TIME_PREFIX, TIME_FORMAT, DATETIME_CONFIG (datetime.xml), TZ, and all other time extraction settings and rules TRANSFORMS which includes per-event queue filtering, per-event index assignment, per-event routing SEDCMD MORE_THAN, LESS_THAN transforms.conf stanzas referenced by a TRANSFORMS clause in props.conf LOOKAHEAD, DEST_KEY, WRITE_META, DEFAULT_VALUE, REPEAT_MATCH