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Find events in a different index related by time

splunkranger
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I need to find events in Index B that happened withing 5 minutes of events in Index A.

Unfortunately I do not have anyway to join them other than time ranges. Can you help me figure this out?

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this:

index=A something | localize timebefore=5m timeafter=5m | map search="search earliest=$starttime$ latest=$endtime$ index=B"

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martin_mueller
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this:

index=A something | localize timebefore=5m timeafter=5m | map search="search earliest=$starttime$ latest=$endtime$ index=B"

splunkranger
Path Finder

That worked! Thank you!!!!

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