topic Re: what is use of diff command in Splunk Search

what is use of diff command

maheshsat — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:11:13 GMT

Hi , I tried understanding diff command from spunk.doc unable to understand,could you please let me know use of diff command what exactly it does , it would be great if given in answer with example.Thanks

Re: what is use of diff command

logloganathan — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:25:27 GMT

diff can be used to get the difference between the epoch time.
Please see the below example where i used this query for setting my alert

your base query | eval MyDate=strptime(date,"%d %b %Y %H:%M:%S") | fieldformat StartTime=strptime(MyDate, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") | eval Diff=tostring((StartTime-EndTime),"duration")

Re: what is use of diff command

p_gurav — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:38:26 GMT

Hi,

Diff command will give you difference between two search results. Refer below link for example:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/151315/how-to-find-differences-between-two-searches-with-set-diff-command.html