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How can I see the Date/time my data was received by Splunk?

hartcl1
Explorer

I'm having an issue with NTP, so the date and time of the records sent by the Operating Systems are all wrong. I want to see/or sort my data within Splunk by the Date/Time the record was received by the Splunk daemon.

Is this possible?

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try using _indextime. It has to be assigned to a variable before it can be used in commands. Like this

your base search | eval sortTime=_indextime | sort sortTime | table ...
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If this reply helps you, Karma would be appreciated.
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ppablo
Retired

Hi @hartcl1

Are you looking for the internal _indextime field?
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.3/Knowledge/UseDefaultFields#Internal_fields

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