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Query running time

Kwip
Contributor

I want to run a query every 5 minutes starting from today 7 AM to next day 5 AM and so on. Throughout my run earliest time should be 7 AM today and latest can be now.

I tried several combinations but everything messed up when running over the mid noght. after the 12 00 AM the earliest is becoming invalid. All of the below methods taking earliest time as 7 AM till end of the day. when running after the mid night throwing error saying earliest time should not be greater than latest time.

Try 1
| makeresults | eval starttime=strptime(strftime(now(),"%d/%m/%Y 07:00:00 AM"),"%d/%m/%Y %I:%M:%S %p") , endtime=starttime+7920

Try 2
earliest=@d+7h

Try 3
     | eval now=now() 
     | eval earliest=relative_time(now, "@d+1d+7h") 
     | eval earliest=if((earliest<now), earliest, relative_time(now, "@d+7h")) 
     | eval search = "earliest=" . earliest
     | table search]
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somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try like this

your base search [| makeresults | eval earliest=if(now()<=relative_time(now(),"@d+5h"),"-1d@d+7h","@d+7h") | eval latest="now" | table earliest latest ]

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nawazns5038
Builder

index=_internal [| makeresults | eval earliest=if(now()<=relative_time(now(),"@d+5h"),"-1d@d+7h","@d+7h") | eval latest="now" | table earliest latest ]

I tried it and it gave me an error "Error in 'search' command: Unable to parse the search: 'AND' operator is missing a clause on the left hand side."

How to create new earliest and latest time fields and use them in query

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micahkemp
Champion

This seems to be a duplicate.

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micahkemp
Champion

Try something like this:

<your base search>
[| makeresults 
| addinfo 
| eval latest=now() 
| eval today_7_am=relative_time(latest, "@d+7h") 
| eval yesterday_7_am=relative_time(latest, "-1d@d+7h") 
| eval earliest=if(today_7_am<latest, today_7_am, yesterday_7_am) 
| table earliest]

That does a simple comparison of your calculated earliest times to determine which was actually in the past, and chooses that one.

Kwip
Contributor

Verifying this query. Working fine now. Will verify over mid night window and let you know the outcome.

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Kwip
Contributor

@ micahkemp,
Wow!! Thank you very much It is working fine!

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somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try like this

your base search [| makeresults | eval earliest=if(now()<=relative_time(now(),"@d+5h"),"-1d@d+7h","@d+7h") | eval latest="now" | table earliest latest ]
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Kwip
Contributor

@somesoni2
I am getting below error while using this query after the splunk upgrade to 7.0. Any thoughts?

Error in 'search' command: Unable to parse the search: 'AND' operator is missing a clause on the left hand side.

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somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this

your base search 
 [| makeresults 
 | eval earliest=if(now()<=relative_time(now(),"@d+5h"),"-1d@d+7h","@d+7h") 
 | eval latest="now" 
 | table earliest latest | format ]
 | stats/eval/table/or whatever operation you want to perform.

OR

your base search 
 [| makeresults 
 | eval earliest=if(now()<=relative_time(now(),"@d+5h"),"-1d@d+7h","@d+7h") 
 | eval latest="now" 
 | table earliest latest  | format "" "" "" "" "" ""]
 | stats/eval/table/or whatever operation you want to perform.
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Kwip
Contributor

Thank you @somesoni2, It is working fine.

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Kwip
Contributor

Verifying this query. Working fine now. Will verify over mid night window and let you know the outcome.

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Kwip
Contributor

@ somesoni2,
Wow!! Thank you very much It is working fine!

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nawazns5038
Builder

How did you verify ?

How did you use the earliest and latest time fields created by the query into _time of Splunk.

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Kwip
Contributor

@nawazns5038
You no need anything else apart from adding the particular portion in the query.

your base search 
[| makeresults 
| eval earliest=if(now()<=relative_time(now(),"@d+5h"),"-1d@d+7h","@d+7h") 
| eval latest="now" 
| table earliest latest ]
| stats/eval/table/or whatever operation you want to perform.

While running this query, running span will be automatically taken from this query.

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