Understanding the Supported File Types
Provide your data using different file types. Additionally, you can compress your files using different file compression formats.
Supported File Types
Use any of these types of files.
| Description | Extensions |
|---|---|
| Text files: log files, delimited files, clickstream, and error logs | TXT |
| Microsoft Office Excel files |
XLS XLSX |
| Comma-delimited files | CSV |
| Tab-delimited files | TSV |
| Simple and complex JavaScript Object Notation files | JSON |
| XML files | XML |
| Rich Text Format files | RTF |
| Adobe PDF files | |
| Microsoft Office Word files |
DOC DOCX |
| EssBase log files |
LOG |
| Splunk log files |
LOG |
| SAP poly-structured files |
SAP |
Supported Compression Formats
Use any of the following formats to compress the files that contain your data.
| Description | Extensions |
|---|---|
| Zip compression file | ZIP |
| Bzip compression file | Bz2 |
| Gzip compression file | GZ |
| TAR archive file | TAR |
| Compressed TAR file |
TAR.GZ TGZ TAR.BZ2 TBZ2 |
Unsupported File Types
The following file types and compression formats aren’t supported. If you select files of this type, then an error message appears.
| Description | Extensions |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Office Powerpoint |
PPTX PPTS PPSX |
| Executable files | EXE |
| Image files |
JPG JPEG BMP GIF TIF |
| Media files |
MP3 MP4 MOV |
| Shell scripts | SH |
| Compression formats |
7Z JAR |