Getting Data In

Reading Log file in binary format into splunk

dinesh_joshy
New Member

Hi ,

Am working with splunk 6.0.2. I have a dataset consists of all requests made to particular website. In order to reduce both the size of the logs and the analysis time the access logs were converted to a binary format. Each entry in the binary log is a fixed size and represents a single request to the site.
I have selected "files&directories" to upload the file. With 'Skip Preview' option, i got a message data uploaded successfully.
Am struggling while i need to see the data summary.
Anyone direct me the way i need to follow with this dataset. Should i need to go with some other option ?

Regards
Dinesh

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The best way I see would be to ingest the log in UTF-8 rather than binary. Feel free to gzip it in order to conserve space, Splunk understands common archive formats.

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dinesh_joshy
New Member

Thanks much for your response, martin. I ll try to do that.

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