How to monitor and index tar.gz files in Splunk?

[dantimola]

I have a tar.gz file and I wan't to continuously monitor it. I tried to index it to Splunk Enterprise via Settings>Data Inputs>Files&Directories, but when I run a search, Splunk doesn't return a result.
What are the steps to continuously monitor tar.gz files to index in Splunk? Do I need to write a script that automatically decompress tar.gz file so Splunk can index it? Thanks.

[dbcase]

FYI Splunk does index compressed files

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.5.0/Data/Monitorfilesanddirectories