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How do you get Splunk to change timestamps from a lookup table?

UMDTERPS
Communicator

We are using a lookuptable with CSV's for reports. However, the _time field has the following format for time:

2015-06-10T20:04:51.254843Z

How do I get Splunk to interpret that for _time?

Is there a way to edit the _time field to get rid of everything from the "T" on and show 2015-06-10 and use strptime?

Thanks!

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chrisyounger
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

This time can be parsed by strptime without any changes. For example

|makeresults | eval time = "2015-06-10T20:04:51.254843Z" | eval parsedTime = strptime(time, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%6QZ")

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chrisyounger
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

This time can be parsed by strptime without any changes. For example

|makeresults | eval time = "2015-06-10T20:04:51.254843Z" | eval parsedTime = strptime(time, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%6QZ")

UMDTERPS
Communicator

It works somewhat, but the eval of 2015-06-10T20:04:51.254843Z converts the time to:

2019-02-07 10:09:54

The time should be June 10, 2015.

I'm trying to get Spunk to interpret the format of our time field " 2015-06-10T20:04:51.254843Z" to make a time graph.

?

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Vijeta
Influencer

you need to assign _time to the lookup time value.

For ex.

eval _time=strptime(lookuptime,"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%6QZ")

UMDTERPS
Communicator

| inputlookup REPORT.csv | eval time=strptime(lastLogonTimestamp,"%m/%d/%y")

The above seemed to work.

Thanks everyone!

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