Differences on throttling times

[akai]

Hello all,

Is there any difference between setting a throttle window of 1d, 24h, 1440m or 86400s?

I was told that it's better to specify it in seconds because of how the throttling system works. Like if you specify 1d, it will trigger the next day, not actual 24 hours later. 

I hope that was clear.

[livehybrid · Accepted solution]

Hi @akai 

I have never noticed that setting to 1d will only supress until midnight, from what I recall it prevents a future alert firing for 1d/24h/86400s.

If you want to be sure about this you can create a similar search with makeresults and run it regularly (e.g hourly) and then set throttle to 1d. It *should* (I believe) only fire once today, and then at the same time tomorrow!

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[akai]

Hello @livehybrid,

Thank you for the tip on making the searches, I should have thought about doing that myself first.

I set up three searches, with throttles at 1d/24h/86400s. All three searches fired around the same time every day, so either I miss-understood what I was being told or the person was mistaken.

Thank you for the help.