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If you use the "bin" to put together the "_time" field and table it, the displayed value is weird.

yutaka1005
Builder

My environment:
Splunk Ver : 7.2.3

When I used the bin command to wrap _time, I found that value was weird like the below capture.

it only shows the year, month, date.

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Apparently, if you set the span to 30 minutes, or if you use minspan, it seems to be happening.

I confirmed this event in 7.1.4 too.

Is this a specification?

Or is it a problem?

1 Solution

martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It's normal behavior for the UI to display yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00 (00:29:xy bin'd to 30m) as just yyyy-mm-dd. Same behavior can be observed about not displaying 000 milliseconds, it's trying to simplify the timestamp for you.

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It's normal behavior for the UI to display yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00 (00:29:xy bin'd to 30m) as just yyyy-mm-dd. Same behavior can be observed about not displaying 000 milliseconds, it's trying to simplify the timestamp for you.

woodcock
Esteemed Legend

So it only happens when you are looking at events that are being interpreted as having happened within 30 minutes after midnight (to you). So retry in an hour and it will look the way that you expect.

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yutaka1005
Builder

Wow, you're right.

I confirmed that All logs that can be summarized at "~00:00:00" had this format.

Thank you for Answer and comment!

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esix_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

What seems odd about this? Its your timestamp, plus a GMT+9 hour offset....

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yutaka1005
Builder

Normally, if you use bin with _time, you will see timestamps separated by 30 minutes as below.

_time
2019-03-24 10:00:00
2019-03-24 10:30:00
2019-03-24 11:00:00
...

However, the above capture only shows the year, month, date.
Also, this event does not occur in all events in search range, but only in some events.

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