Explanation
A Technical Add-On (TA) is a Splunk app that contains configurations for data collection, parsing, and enrichment. It can also enable event data for a data model, which is useful for creating dashboards and reports.
Therefore, before installing a TA, it is important to identify the number of scheduled or real-time searches that will use the data model, and to validate if the TA enables event data for a data model. The number of forwarders that the TA can support is not relevant, as the TA is installed on the indexer or search head, not on the forwarder. The installation location of the TA depends on the type of data and the use case, so it is not a fixed requirement