Splunk Indexing .gz files as compressed/raw data and not the uncompressed version

[qhrtaylordresch]

Attached is an example of the data, I have also extracted the data from the gz files and it was able to import the data fine that way. The stanza for the monitor is

[monitor:///var/akamailogs/prod]
disabled = false
host = Akamai
index = akamaiweblog
sourcetype = access_combined

Am I missing something?

[n0str0m08 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

During input time you have to specify also in props.conf

[access_combined]
invalid_cause = archive

[source::/var/akamailogs/prod]
unarchive_cmd = _auto

According to the Splunk Doc https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.4/Admin/Propsconf

invalid_cause = <string>
* Can only be set for a [<sourcetype>] stanza.
* If invalid_cause is set, the Tailing code (which handles uncompressed
  logfiles) will not read the data, but hand it off to other components or
  throw an error.
* Set <string> to "archive" to send the file to the archive processor
  (specified in unarchive_cmd).
* When set to "winevt", this causes the file to be handed off to the
  Event Log input processor.
* Set to any other string to throw an error in the splunkd.log if you are
  running Splunklogger in debug mode.
* This setting applies at input time, when data is first read by Splunk 
  software, such as on a forwarder that has configured inputs acquiring the 
  data.
* Defaults to empty.

unarchive_cmd = <string>
* Only called if invalid_cause is set to "archive".
* This field is only valid on [source::<source>] stanzas.
* <string> specifies the shell command to run to extract an archived source.
* Must be a shell command that takes input on stdin and produces output on
  stdout.
* Use _auto for Splunk software's automatic handling of archive files (tar, 
  tar.gz, tgz, tbz, tbz2, zip)
* This setting applies at input time, when data is first read by Splunk 
  software, such as on a forwarder that has configured inputs acquiring the 
  data.
* Defaults to empty.

[qhrtaylordresch]

Ah forgot about that, thank you.