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Align timechart with current time

BenEllisCognia
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We've been using the following search

sourcetype=*_catalina ERROR logging_level=ERROR | bucket _time span=4h | timechart count span=4h

that counts the errors every 4 hours throughout the day, e.g.

00:00
04:00
08:00

however, we'd like to see the errors every 4 hours from now, e.g.

15:37:12
19:37:12
23:37:12

Is this possible? How can we achieve this?

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BenEllisCognia
Explorer

I've tweaked @somesoni2's answer to suit my needs and it appears to run okay though a little slow, any optimization suggestions would be appreciated.

sourcetype=*_catalina (ERROR OR SEVERE OR FATAL) | where ISNULL(logging_level) OR logging_level="ERROR" OR logging_level="SEVERE" OR logging_level="FATAL" | table _time | eval diff=now()-relative_time(now(),"@d") | eval diff=case(diff < (4*3600), diff - (1*(4*3600)), diff < (2*(4*3600)), diff - (2*(4*3600)), diff < (3*(4*3600)), diff - (3*(4*3600)), diff < (4*(4*3600)), diff - (4*(4*3600)), diff < (5*(4*3600)), diff - (5*(4*3600)), diff < (6*(4*3600)), diff - (6*(4*3600)), diff < (7*(4*3600)), diff - (7*(4*3600))) | eval _time=_time-diff | timechart span=4h count max(diff) as diff | eval _time=_time+diff | fields - diff 

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BenEllisCognia
Explorer

I've tweaked @somesoni2's answer to suit my needs and it appears to run okay though a little slow, any optimization suggestions would be appreciated.

sourcetype=*_catalina (ERROR OR SEVERE OR FATAL) | where ISNULL(logging_level) OR logging_level="ERROR" OR logging_level="SEVERE" OR logging_level="FATAL" | table _time | eval diff=now()-relative_time(now(),"@d") | eval diff=case(diff < (4*3600), diff - (1*(4*3600)), diff < (2*(4*3600)), diff - (2*(4*3600)), diff < (3*(4*3600)), diff - (3*(4*3600)), diff < (4*(4*3600)), diff - (4*(4*3600)), diff < (5*(4*3600)), diff - (5*(4*3600)), diff < (6*(4*3600)), diff - (6*(4*3600)), diff < (7*(4*3600)), diff - (7*(4*3600))) | eval _time=_time-diff | timechart span=4h count max(diff) as diff | eval _time=_time+diff | fields - diff 
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somesoni2
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Give this a try

sourcetype=*_catalina ERROR logging_level=ERROR | table _time | eval diff=now()-relative_time(now(),"@h") | eval _time=_time-diff | timechart span=4h count max(diff) as diff | eval _time=_time+diff |fields - diff
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BenEllisCognia
Explorer

This doesn't work as I am wanting, it still gives me a truncated count for the last 4 hours.

It rounds all the events to the nearest hour, if it rounded them to the nearest 4 hour block then it would possibly do what I want.

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