topic Re: custom timeframe on cli with saved searches in Reporting

custom timeframe on cli with saved searches

zscgeek — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:40:18 GMT

How do you change the time period of a saved search when running from the CLI?

Right now I have a saved search that runs over a 30min window by default. I normally will run it like this:

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk search  "|savedsearch \"Top HTTP Response Codes\""

Assuming I want to run that same saved search over a 1h window what can I do? I tried this but it did not seem to work:

/opt/splunk/bin/splunk search  "|savedsearch \"Top HTTP Response Codes\"" -earliest_time "−50m"

I don't get any errors but it ran it over the same timeframe as before.

Re: custom timeframe on cli with saved searches

Ledion_Bitincka — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:24:01 GMT

currently there is no way to override the time range over which the savedsearch is executed when ran from the CLI. Unfortunately there currently is no workaround for this issue.

I have filed a bug, SPL-33374, which should be fixed in one of the next maintenance releases.

Re: custom timeframe on cli with saved searches

SeanWilliams — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:40:37 GMT

Is this still the case ?? can you still not use a defined time frame on a saved search ?

Re: custom timeframe on cli with saved searches

solarboyz1 — Thu, 30 May 2013 15:38:23 GMT

Is this still the case? I can't find any reference to SPL-33374, or any information regarding adjusting the time frame of a saved search.

Re: custom timeframe on cli with saved searches

Ellen — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:52:47 GMT

This was fixed since 4.2 under SPL-35277.

Here is a sample CLI that will override the time period existing in a saved search to your custom one (eg. May 6, 2013 7:00am to May 18, 2013 11:00pm) on the Splunk search command line.

$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk search "| savedsearch ChgTime" -auth admin:changeme -earliest_time "2013-05-06T07:00:00.000" -latest_time "2013-05-18T23:00:00.000" -time_format "%FT%T.%Q"