topic Re: Indexing ZIP files in Getting Data In

Indexing ZIP files

efelder0 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:15:56 GMT

Can Splunk index gzip/zip files (flat-file format)?

Re: Indexing ZIP files

Ayn — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:21:10 GMT

Yes.

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/279/does-splunk-index-gzip-files

Re: Indexing ZIP files

efelder0 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:38:48 GMT

OK, good. Are there config changes that need to occur?

Re: Indexing ZIP files

efelder0 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:39:10 GMT

props.conf, transforms.conf

Re: Indexing ZIP files

Ayn — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:45:21 GMT

Nope! It indexes it right out of the box.

Re: Indexing ZIP files

dwaddle — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:03:06 GMT

Pedantic reminder that "zip" != "gzip". One of these (.zip) is the venerable PKZIP format that allows multiple files within an archive. The other (.gz) is the gzip single-file compression format.

Re: Indexing ZIP files

hurricanelabs — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 19:27:24 GMT

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Monitorfilesanddirectories#How_Splunk_Enterprise_monitors_archived_files