Manually importing Excel file: Why are the field value and event type showing up as "error" ?

[diptendu]

I am indexing reports as an Excel file, but after indexing I am getting field value for tag as error also event type as error. Can somebody please help me as the TA is not working and we are manually ingesting the Excel file.

[inventsekar]

Splunk doesnt support xls formatting as its a proprietary binary (Microsoft) format. If you want to load this in Splunk, save it as a CSV file and upload it into Splunk.

more on this - https://www.splunk.com/blog/2015/01/30/working-with-spreadsheets-in-splunk-excel-csv-files.html