https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-Splunk-good-for-inputting-text-data-into/m-p/96913#M20219 <P>My boss wants me to use Splunk to analyze log files, but I do not have access to the server so he's sending me data text files instead. It is my understanding from seeing Splunk that it runs on a more automatic basis where it connects with the server and analyzes the data from there. I was curious to know if Splunk is good for inputting these text files into the program and then analyzing them or if I'm better off using something more like a Spreadsheet program?</P> Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:58:59 GMT allyandrews14 2012-07-12T15:58:59Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-Splunk-good-for-inputting-text-data-into/m-p/96913#M20219 <P>My boss wants me to use Splunk to analyze log files, but I do not have access to the server so he's sending me data text files instead. It is my understanding from seeing Splunk that it runs on a more automatic basis where it connects with the server and analyzes the data from there. I was curious to know if Splunk is good for inputting these text files into the program and then analyzing them or if I'm better off using something more like a Spreadsheet program?</P> Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:58:59 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-Splunk-good-for-inputting-text-data-into/m-p/96913#M20219 allyandrews14 2012-07-12T15:58:59Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-Splunk-good-for-inputting-text-data-into/m-p/96914#M20220 <P>You can monitor a folder with Splunk and have it index data as new data comes into the folder. This is a very common use case. </P> <P><A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Monitorfilesanddirectories">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Monitorfilesanddirectories</A></P> Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:10:27 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Is-Splunk-good-for-inputting-text-data-into/m-p/96914#M20220 jbsplunk 2012-07-12T16:10:27Z