According to the Splunk documentation1, the Search Job Inspector is a tool that you can use to

troubleshoot search performance and understand the behavior of knowledge objects, such as event

types, tags, lookups, and so on, within the search. You can inspect search jobs that are currently

running or that have finished recently. The Search Job Inspector can help you investigate error

messages that appear underneath the search bar in Splunk Web, as it can show you the details of the

search job, such as the search string, the search mode, the search timeline, the search log, the search

profile, and the search properties. You can use this information to identify the cause of the error and

fix it2. The other options are false because:

Dashboard panels showing “Waiting for queued job to start” on page load is not a problem that can

be investigated using the Search Job Inspector, as it indicates that the search job has not started yet.

This could be due to the search scheduler being busy or the search priority being low. You can use the

Jobs page or the Monitoring Console to monitor the status of the search jobs and adjust the priority

or concurrency settings if needed3.

Different users seeing different extracted fields from the same search is not a problem that can be

investigated using the Search Job Inspector, as it is related to the user permissions and the

knowledge object sharing settings. You can use the Access Controls page or the Knowledge Manager

to manage the user roles and the knowledge object visibility4.

Events not being sorted in reverse chronological order is not a problem that can be investigated using

the Search Job Inspector, as it is related to the search syntax and the sort command. You can use the

Search Manual or the Search Reference to learn how to use the sort command and its options to sort

the events by any field or criteria.