How to store timestamp in KVSTORE

[samaikins]

Hi guys

I have a search manager to retrieve timestamp in EPOCH.
However I want a way to be able to store the results in a KVSTORE.

any ideas ??

/// Create Search manger to get current timestamp EPOCH TIME 
        var timestamp_search = new SearchManager({
            "id": "timestamp_search",
            "status_buckets": 0,
            "latest_time": "$latest$",
            "search": "| stats count as timestamp | eval timestamp = now()",
            "earliest_time": "$earliest$",
            "cancelOnUnload": true,
            "app": utils.getCurrentApp(),
            "auto_cancel": 90,
            "preview": true,
            "runWhenTimeIsUndefined": false
        }, {tokens: true});

[renjith_nair · Accepted solution]

If you want to enforce the field, you can use Fields section in KV store

Doc : http://dev.splunk.com/view/webframework-developapps/SP-CAAAEZK

Details about "how to configure" is available here http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/ConfigureKVstorelookups

http://dev.splunk.com/view/webframework-developapps/SP-CAAAEZH

http://dev.splunk.com/view/webframework-developapps/SP-CAAAEY7

Programmatically

http://dev.splunk.com/view/webframework-tutorials/SP-CAAAEZV

[samaikins]

thanks renjith for the response,however answer you gave i already.
my problem is actually retrieving the search results and saving it into the KVStore
In other words i want a timestamp to be automatically generated and stored in the KVStore each time a record is inserted.
So the logic i could come up with is to get the timestamp using the search manager and save the results.
I am able to get the timestamp from the search manager .
However i dont know how to extract the results and save it in the KVstore.
Any suggestions

Thanks
Sam

[renjith_nair]

Just assign current timestamp to a variable using eval and add to your original search string (eval time=now()).

Share your original search string which is used to insert other values into KV Store, we can modify it for you

[samaikins]

i created a search manager object and the search string is

"search": "| stats count as timestamp | eval timestamp = now()"

so looks like what you suggested.
but how do i get the variable "timestamp" into the kvstore.

my search manager looks like this

 /// get current timestamp EPOCH TIME 
        var timestamp_search = new SearchManager({
            "id": "timestamp_search",
            "status_buckets": 0,
            "latest_time": "$latest$",
            "search": "| stats count as timestamp | eval timestamp = now()",
            "earliest_time": "$earliest$",
            "cancelOnUnload": true,
            "app": utils.getCurrentApp(),
            "auto_cancel": 90,
            "preview": true,
            "runWhenTimeIsUndefined": false
        }, {tokens: true});

my kvstore dictionary looks like this

            var record = { 
                "time_stamp": timestamp
            }; 

[renjith_nair]

You can do it from your search itself using outputlookup

for eg :

|stats count|eval timestamp=now()|fields timestamp|outputlookup kvstorelookup name

Its already mentioned in the docs provided above. also refer to

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.1511/SearchReference/Outputlookup

In general, you can insert a record programmatically using rest end points as well.

http://dev.splunk.com/view/webframework-tutorials/SP-CAAAEZV

[samaikins]

i have some form data that i have to save together with the timestamp.
so i can only use the REST API.
But i have tried several methods out there but doesnt seem to work .
below is the samplecode where i am trying to retrive the timestamp results in to
"my_timestamp" variable where i will inturn save into the dictionary to be used by the REST
any ideas

  /// get current timestamp EPOCH TIME 
        var timestamp_search = new SearchManager({
            "id": "timestamp_search",
            "status_buckets": 0,
            "latest_time": "$latest$",
            "search": "| stats count as timestamp | eval timestamp = now()",
            "earliest_time": "$earliest$",
            "cancelOnUnload": true,
            "app": utils.getCurrentApp(),
            "auto_cancel": 90,
            "preview": true,
            "runWhenTimeIsUndefined": false
        }, {tokens: true,tokenNamespace: "submitted"});


    //WHERE I GET THE TIME STAMP FROM THE SEACH MANAGER 

    var my_timestamp = ??

    //FORM INPUTS
            var record = { 
                "CustID": form_id, 
                "CustName": form_name, 
                "CustStreet": form_street,
                "CustCity": form_city,
                "CustState": form_state,
                "CustZip": form_zip, 
        "time_stamp" : my_timestamp
            }; 

            // Use the request method to send a REST POST request
            // to the storage/collections/data/{collection}/ endpoint
            service.request(
                "storage/collections/data/mycollection/",
                "POST",
                null,
                null,
                JSON.stringify(record),
                {"Content-Type": "application/json"},
                null);
        });

[renjith_nair]

Ok if you are using html, then just get the current time from java script itself instead of creating a search manager just for this.

var currentDate=new Date();

You can either use currentDate directly which has full timestamp including timezone or get date/time elements from the date object currentDate according to your requirements.

Check javascript datetime documents for further reference

[samaikins]

thanks renjith that did the trick .

[renjith_nair]

Glad to here that. Please accept answer so that the question will be closed