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Splunk not storing time in milliseconds

ankith_nt
New Member

I am extracting the timestamp from events in microseconds (%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S.%6N). But when index event timestamp is not showing in sub seconds. Always I see zeroth subsecond in timestamp. Is there any overwritten possible other than by props?

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kmorris_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

I think this is just a question of how Splunk shows _time. Try something like this to see if it helps.

<YOUR BASE SEARCH> 
| convert timeformat="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S:%6N" ctime(_time) AS c_time 
| table c_time
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