How to add 1 month to a current date field in a search?

[kmcaloon]

I have a table with an ID in it and a date. I've converted the date to be YYYYMMDD. Based on that date field, I would like to create a whole new column that takes the current date field and adds a month to populate the column/row. I don't want to use relative now() time, I want to take my data point and add a month to it.

So my search is

index=product_index punct="__::_..___::_:_:____'_______,__\\\\____'" | convert ctime(_time) as monitor_start timeformat=%Y-%m-%d| table Employee_ID, monitor_start, monitor_end | outputlookup users.csv

I need to add another pipe that does something such as |eval monitor_end=(monitor_start+1mon)but that doesn't work.

If I can get a new column called monitor_end, I would do a format on that as well. | convert ctime(monitor_end) timeformat=%Y-%m-%d

[sundareshr · Accepted solution]

Try this

.... | eval monitor_end=relative_time(_time, "+1mon") | eval monitor_start=strftime(_time, "%Y-%m-%d") | eval monitor_end=strftime(monitor_end, "%Y-%m-%d") | ...

[kmcaloon]

Thank you!!! This worked perfectly.