topic Re: Splunk alert/reports in Alerting

Splunk alert/reports

DataOrg — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 10:55:16 GMT

i have a search head in eastern time and user is configured in Asia time.
so if i configure a report/alert in which time the reports wil be executed. whether user time or search head time.
so if user scheduling a cron on his timezone to run at 6PM.. what time zone the report will run whether search head time or user timezone

Re: Splunk alert/reports

thambisetty — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:15:29 GMT

It would be user timezone.
Because, while search displaying the results user time will be considered. In the same way for scheduled alerts also user time will be considered.

Re: Splunk alert/reports

renjith_nair — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:31:40 GMT

@premranjithj,

User time zone is just to present you results in your time zone but the searches will be still run on the server time. Please see below post more information!
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/232647/what-timezone-does-my-scheduled-search-run-in.html

Re: Splunk alert/reports

DataOrg — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:36:40 GMT

so if server is Eastern time and user in asia time. if user considering to get last 4 hours data of user time.. what time zone data we will user get?

Eastern standard time data with replaced in user time zone or user time with eastern standard time?

Re: Splunk alert/reports

renjith_nair — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:51:41 GMT

@premranjithj,
Here is an example :

My server is set to Asia time (Singapore)
User settings is set to Alaska (US)
Time range selected for last 15 minutes at 9:44 PM

Time shown in _time : 7/26/18 5:44:23.356 AM

Time of events : 127.0.0.1 - admin [26/Jul/2018:21:44:23.356 +0800]