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How to extract month and year from _time

sbhatnagar88
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_ time is in below format

2019-01-30 07:10:51.191
2019-01-30 07:10:51.190
2019-01-30 07:10:51.189

I need output in below format

January 2019

Any help would be highly appreciable...

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DMohn
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Try this:

<your base search> | eval yourtime = strftime(_time,"%B %Y) 

the field yourtime will then contain the timestamp in the requested format.

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vishaltaneja070
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Hello @sbhatnagar88

Try this:
index=_internal | head 1 | table _time | eval time= strftime(_time, "%B %Y")

sbhatnagar88
Path Finder

Thank you...

DMohn
Motivator

Try this:

<your base search> | eval yourtime = strftime(_time,"%B %Y) 

the field yourtime will then contain the timestamp in the requested format.

sbhatnagar88
Path Finder

Thank you...

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