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Splunk.intersplunk: Receiving error "could not locate the time (_time) field..."

santosm
New Member

How come I can't locate the time (_time) field on some results returned from the external search command?

Hi,

I use Splunk.Intersplunk library to do my search command, but sometimes output receives the error:
"could not locate the time (_time) field on some results returned from the external search command".

Does anyone know why this is happening?

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VatsalJagani
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hello @santosm,

Recently I came across this issue and I found out that if you use your command as streaming command you need to return _time field. So you can get this field from results streamed to the command and returned with other fields.

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