topic Add Data to Splunk in Splunk Search https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Add-Data-to-Splunk/m-p/62187#M180188 <P>What is the difference between Choose a Data Type and Choose a Data Source.</P> <P>I want to monitor only directories that contains some log file and log format is simple text.</P> <P>If there is no difference then why there are two option to add data and id there is difference then what is the difference?</P> <P>Thanks</P> Tue, 29 May 2012 09:33:37 GMT jangid 2012-05-29T09:33:37Z Add Data to Splunk https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Add-Data-to-Splunk/m-p/62187#M180188 <P>What is the difference between Choose a Data Type and Choose a Data Source.</P> <P>I want to monitor only directories that contains some log file and log format is simple text.</P> <P>If there is no difference then why there are two option to add data and id there is difference then what is the difference?</P> <P>Thanks</P> Tue, 29 May 2012 09:33:37 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Add-Data-to-Splunk/m-p/62187#M180188 jangid 2012-05-29T09:33:37Z Re: Add Data to Splunk https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Add-Data-to-Splunk/m-p/62188#M180189 <P>There is no difference for the file monitoring. The data types may require additional apps or add-ons for the data collection so they make suggestions to help you. The data sources are generic based on the method to collect.</P> Tue, 29 May 2012 10:31:41 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Add-Data-to-Splunk/m-p/62188#M180189 sdaniels 2012-05-29T10:31:41Z Re: Add Data to Splunk https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Add-Data-to-Splunk/m-p/62189#M180190 <P>Thanks for your quick reply.<BR /> better to remove this from one location, for me there is no difference in functionality and UI point of view.</P> Tue, 29 May 2012 10:41:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Add-Data-to-Splunk/m-p/62189#M180190 jangid 2012-05-29T10:41:47Z Re: Add Data to Splunk https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Add-Data-to-Splunk/m-p/62190#M180191 <P>Thanks for the feedback.</P> Tue, 29 May 2012 13:36:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/Add-Data-to-Splunk/m-p/62190#M180191 sdaniels 2012-05-29T13:36:49Z