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Incorrect message: minspan option has no effect when span is specified

unclethan
Path Finder

In splunk 5.0.1 adding "minspan" to timechart results in the message "minspan option has no effect when span is specified". The span has not be been specified.

index=INDEX TOKEN | timechart minspan=10m max(MILLISECS) by GROUP_ID

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Jason
Motivator

According to Support this is bug SPL-59079 and will be fixed in 5.0.3.

Jason
Motivator

I tested and despite the message saying it has no effect, it certainly does have an effect: ... | timechart minspan=30s count by ... makes 30 second buckets on a Last 15 Minutes search. However, ... | timechart minspan=5s count by ... makes 10-second buckets. Case 114952 filed.

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Jason
Motivator

Also on Splunk 5.0.2, just in flashtimeline or charting views. "Span" is likely a time range you're running the search over - the message would not pop up or all time searches or real time searches - but any other timespan had this message appear. http://[splunk instance]/en-US/app/search/charting/?q=search%20index%3D_internal%20|%20timechart%20minspan%3D30s%20count%20by%20sourcetype&earliest=-24h%40h&latest=now&c.chart=area&c.title=&c.stack=stacked&c.split=false&c.nulls=zero&c.legend=right&c.x.title=&c.y.title=&c.y.min=&c.y.max=&c.y.scale=

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tmeader
Contributor

Seeing the same thing in 2.3.1 on Splunk 5.

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lsnow
Explorer

FWIW, I'm seeing this error while running reports in SoS v2.3.1 on Splunk 5.0 as well.

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