What is a "status bucket"?

[yvonnec]

In the POST search/jobs endpoint, there's an option to specify a number of status buckets.

It seems that certain information about the search job is only available when this value is greater than 0
(ie search/jobs/{search_id}/summary, search/jobs/{search_id}/timeline),
but it's not clear to mean what exactly is a "status bucket"- and how to determine an appropriate number of status buckets?

[somesoni2]

Read the accepted answer from following post:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/128761/programmatically-setting-search-mode-to-fast.html

[yvonnec]

Thank you, that helps somewhat. Just to make sure my understanding is now correct:

status_buckets is an integer that tells Splunk how many timebuckets it should keep for summary statistics about the extracted fields

Looking through docs, it seems that "time buckets" refers to a number of buckets that each span some time interval, used with certain timeline related commands (ie tstats). Is that the same definition of timebuckets as the one in the quoted portion?

It then proceeds to keep 2 buckets of summary statistics, for all the fields referenced in the search, plus the field "username".

So if status_buckets had been set to 1, or even 10, how would that have affected this output? Based on the above definition of time buckets, I understand that this means the granularity of summary statistics would have been broken down into multiple intervals (ie if status_buckets was 10 and the search time range was 10 hours, there would be 10 hour-long buckets generated)?