topic Re: Can you extract file from zip and ingest in Getting Data In

Can you extract file from zip and ingest

coolguycarlos — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:47:23 GMT

We are new to splunk and we are trying to find about all the vast capabilities that splunk offers.

So here is the scenario.

We have a repository that contains100s of zip files that are accessible through a network share.

Within these zip files contains a csv file that contains the data we need to ingest.

So the question is, is it possible for splunk to ingest just the csv within these individual zip files without having to unzip the entire archive first.

Re: Can you extract file from zip and ingest

bowesmana — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:57:36 GMT

Splunk will ingest ZIP files

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Monitorfilesanddirectories

Re: Can you extract file from zip and ingest

coolguycarlos — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 22:06:11 GMT

Thanks. Is it possible though to only ingest the CSV file within the zip files?

Re: Can you extract file from zip and ingest

bowesmana — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:44:57 GMT

If the zip contains other files, then I don't know how you would exclude those files

Re: Can you extract file from zip and ingest

PickleRick — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 12:38:09 GMT

Firstly - there is no way to whitelist/blacklist/select subset of files from an archive. If you tell Splunk to ingest an archive, it will happily pull contents of all files contained within.

Secondly - ingesting archives can be tricky - any change to archive will cause complete reingestion of archive contents so you might end up with several copies of the same events (and huge overconsumption of license).