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To add timestamp in report mail

MsF-2000
Explorer

Hi All

We got this requirement to print the timestamp in mail subject for scheduled report. the timestamp should indicate the time it got sent.

for exg, the report runs twice a day so if it runs 6 am and 6 pm, the mail subject should indicate dd-mm-yyyy 06:00:00 or 18:00:00

Please help.

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @MsF-2000 

You may be able to use $job.latestTime$ in your subject - however I believe this is a unix timestamp so it may be hard for the receiver to know what it really means.

Instead, you could use add_info to your search to get the search time and use the $result.search_time$

livehybrid_0-1744872515247.png

 

index=_internal | stats count
| addinfo
| eval search_time=strftime(info_search_time,"%c")
| fields - info_*

This is a simple example to help you get started.

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livehybrid
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @MsF-2000 

You may be able to use $job.latestTime$ in your subject - however I believe this is a unix timestamp so it may be hard for the receiver to know what it really means.

Instead, you could use add_info to your search to get the search time and use the $result.search_time$

livehybrid_0-1744872515247.png

 

index=_internal | stats count
| addinfo
| eval search_time=strftime(info_search_time,"%c")
| fields - info_*

This is a simple example to help you get started.

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MsF-2000
Explorer

Hi @livehybrid 

 

I checked with the query and it worked, I made little change to display DD:MM:YYYY HH:MM:SS using below query and it worked as expected. I am marking your answer as solution since it gave me base query to develop from, thank you very much !

 

|eval timestamp=strftime(now(), "%d/&m/%Y %H:%M:%S")

|table timestamp,<<intented fields>>

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