https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/f5-upload-logs-to-splunk/m-p/48274#M96740 <P>If these really are Excel (binary format) files, and not csv or some other text based format you will need to convert them into some plain text before feeding them into Splunk using this technique.</P> Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:20:39 GMT dwaddle 2010-09-12T20:20:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/f5-upload-logs-to-splunk/m-p/48272#M96738 <P>i downloaded the following logs to my workstation running xp and i have splunk running on it. how do i import them in to splunk?</P> <P>i downloaded the following files to c:\temp app_logs.xls group_report.xls https.xls Logon.xls sessions.xls summary_report.xls system logs.xls</P> Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:01:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/f5-upload-logs-to-splunk/m-p/48272#M96738 cookdg 2010-09-11T03:01:50Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/f5-upload-logs-to-splunk/m-p/48273#M96739 <P>To upload files to splunk, pull up your splunk instance and navigate to: Manager * Data Inputs * Files and Directories * Click on New and select upload local file.</P> <P>Take a look at <A href="http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/WhatSplunkCanMonitor" rel="nofollow">http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Admin/WhatSplunkCanMonitor</A></P> <P>Brian</P> Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:39:24 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/f5-upload-logs-to-splunk/m-p/48273#M96739 Brian_Osburn 2010-09-11T05:39:24Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/f5-upload-logs-to-splunk/m-p/48274#M96740 <P>If these really are Excel (binary format) files, and not csv or some other text based format you will need to convert them into some plain text before feeding them into Splunk using this technique.</P> Sun, 12 Sep 2010 20:20:39 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/f5-upload-logs-to-splunk/m-p/48274#M96740 dwaddle 2010-09-12T20:20:39Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/f5-upload-logs-to-splunk/m-p/48275#M96741 <P>yes they are excel files. let me try to convert them to plain text. do the files have to have certian file name for splunk to read them?</P> Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:48:48 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/f5-upload-logs-to-splunk/m-p/48275#M96741 cookdg 2010-09-14T00:48:48Z