Getting Data In

Computing latency between event time, arrival, and indexing

droth333
Explorer

I know I can get lag between the timestamp of the event, and its
index time on the indexer by using

|eval lag = _indextime - _index

Is there a value that says when it arrived on the indexer?
That would help me to know whether my indexing latency problem is
at the forwarder, at the indexer, or somewhere else.

I know these magic _* fields aren't documented, but is there such
a field as the above? Like _arrivaltime value...
Thanks.

1 Solution

yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Good question, but there is no such value.

_time is the timestamp extracted from the events.
_indextime is the time when the event was written to the index, not when it was received by the indexer.

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bkumarm
Contributor

Since this question was posted long ago? Just checking any new features added in Splunk that gives the time of arrival of log into the Universal forwarder?

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yannK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Good question, but there is no such value.

_time is the timestamp extracted from the events.
_indextime is the time when the event was written to the index, not when it was received by the indexer.

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