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Overlapped events in summary index when using sitimechart

ejpulsar
Path Finder

Hi,
i'm using splunk 6.1.1

I made this si- search and scheduled it to run "every hour" at period -1h@m to "now"

..
| where isnotnull(HAS_ERROR_TYPE)
| dedup SID1
| sitimechart span=1h count by HAS_ERROR_TYPE

I've got many overlapping events in Summary index next day.

,"2014-05-25T00:00:00.000+0400",,"Summary Index - USSD","Summary Index - USSD","Found overlap in saved search 'Summary Index - USSD' between search ids: '1402966801.531' and '1402974001.568' from 'Sun May 25 00:00:00 2014' to 'Tue Jun 17 05:00:01 2014'","Sun May 25 00:00:00 2014","Tue Jun 17 05:00:01 2014"

Whats wrong in my search or scheduler?

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

My opinion will be to avoid using now for summary index searches. The schedule/data you're querying can be achieved by following and may be more accurate.

Search time range:   earliest=-62m@m  latest=-2m@m
Schedule type :  cron
Cron schedule :  1-59/59 * * * *
               ( run every 60 min starting from min 1 [2nd min])

This will run at 2nd minute every hour and consider data for full previous hour.

somesoni2
Revered Legend

The settings looks correct to me.

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ejpulsar
Path Finder

Thanks, i've finally got this settings. Are it correct?

1) Start Time: -1h@h
2) End Time: @h
3) Cron Schedule: 5 ! ! ! !
(!=*, incorrect site formatting)

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ejpulsar
Path Finder

Ahrrgw sorry.

I forgot to delete "earliest=" string at the top of the search.

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ejpulsar
Path Finder

Yes, definetely.

But I'm upset that si- commands acts as collect command and didn't help to automate filling gaps in summary index.

Are there any trick to construct search to fill all summary index gaps which was a week or a month ago?

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ppablo
Retired

Hi @ejpulsar. Did this solve your scheduled search issue?

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