topic Re: search time range in Splunk Search

search time range

TiagoMatos — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:40:42 GMT

I need to have a search that uses:

index="pt_app_siebel" SWEMethod="ReconfigureCXProd" starttime=9/6/2013:00:00:00 latest=now date_wday=monday date_hour=22 | ....

But what I need is that the date_wday and date_hour to be determined by the current time. Is there any way to include eval wday=strftime(now(),"%w") before the end of the time range definition?

Re: search time range

rturk — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:38:45 GMT

Hi Tiago - just to clarify, assuming this search is run at 9:55PM on a Thurday night, you want to show all results since 9/6/2013 that happened on a Wednesday between 21:00 & 22:00?

Re: search time range

TiagoMatos — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:46:07 GMT

No assuming that the search is run at 9:55PM on Thursday, I want it to show all results from 9/6/2013 till now, and that were on Mondays, and at 21h-22h. THE POINT IS, I NEED TO USE THE now() in date_monday. I just can't make it happen

Re: search time range

kristian_kolb — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:06:12 GMT

You can do that in a subsearch, where the sole purpose of the subsearch is to play around with now(), so that it can return valid earliest/latest values to the outer search. Since I still do not really understand your requirement, the example below illustrates how you can ensure that on Mondays you'll get logs covering the weekend, but on other days you'll only get yesterdays logs.

sourcetype=blah [search * | head 1 | eval earliest=if(date_wday=monday,"-3d@d", "-1d@d")| return earliest] | rest_of_search

Hope this helps,

Re: search time range

TiagoMatos — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:35:45 GMT

ALthough this is not what I asked exactly, it helped me a lot! My problem is solved! THANKS!

Re: search time range

kristian_kolb — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:43:04 GMT

feel free to mark it as answered.