Getting Data In

Uploaded a CSV from my PC, where is it?

Gregski11
Contributor

so a semi newb to splunk here, (don't ask, lol) anyway installed Splunk 10.x on my home Windows 10 PC to fart around with it a little bit away from our Enterprise environment type of thing

used the Settings \ Add Data feature to import a simple CSV file with just four rows of data and no header row, well as I did that I noticed that Splunk assumed the top row was the header, but I thought what the hewk lets just pump it in to a brand new custom Index and so I just clicked, next, next, next in the wizard and now I have an index with only 3 rows of data instead of four

so how do I fix it? when I go to Settings \ Data Inputs (yes I love using the web GUI instead of editing text files cause it's 2025, lol and not 1972 hee hee ) 

I do not see this input anywhere, shouldn't it be under Files & Directories ?

 

 

it appears this person had the exact same issue: https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Importing-CSV-file-without-a-header/m-p/482458

 


your kind and gentle help is much appreciate it, please explain it to me in Forklift terms 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It sounds like the CSV was ingested as a one-shot import rather than as a monitored file.  That's why you don't see it in the Inputs UI.

To "fix it" just re-ingest the file.  The old data will remain, of course.

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Gregski11
Contributor

ah that makes sense, thank you so much, hugely appreciate it, and as a reward for good work here is more work ie more dumb questions

so when I attempted to simply just reingest it as a CSV it never showed me the raw data in the preivew of the import wizard like it did the first time, I found that to be odd

so I changed the source type to Miscellaneous \ generic_single_line and then it showed all four rows looking like most of the data we ingest from all over the place and who knows what types of logs

then for the hewk of it I tried ingesting it again as a CSV and whalla it once again showed the Raw data, thanks alot Splunk your inconsistencies are driving me bananas 


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