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Saved Search Creation Time

MJ_27
New Member

I'm trying to figure out when some of my correlation searches was created ?
i tried it with rest, but only getting updated timestamp with this.

| rest /servicesNS/-/-/saved/searches

 

Any other way around to find this ?
tried to search in audit as well. nothing helpful yet. Open to suggestions or workaround on this.

Please share

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kknairr
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@MJ_27 You can reliably get the last updated time, but not the original creation time. If you know roughly when they were created, you might be able to confirm with audit or config tracker data, but otherwise there isn’t a native field that records creation. This is a known limitation, and many admins rely on version control systems or change‑management processes to track when correlation searches were first introduced. Hope it clarifies.

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livehybrid
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Hi @MJ_27 

Do you know how long ago they might have been created roughly? Depending on your environment (Cloud vs OnPrem) and retention you might find some info in _internal/_audit or _configtracker 

Other than this there isnt a creation time recorded unfortunately. You can get the updated time ('updated' field from your existing REST endpoint search) but this is the last time it was modified not creation.

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gcusello
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Hi @MJ_27 ,

I don't think that's possible this!

It's only possible to have versioning (so also the creation dates) of the Detections (the old Correlation Searches) using ES from the 8.4 verion.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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