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Time difference for the transaction

splunkpoornima
Communicator

I want to find the time difference between the transactions,display as a chart

My data will look like this

Mon Sep 24 11:00:30 CDT 2012,xxx,START

Mon Sep 24 11:00:31 CDT 2012,xxx,COMPLETION: Succeeded

so what i need is (11:00:30-11:00:31) is 01 seconds

Plz Help

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splunkpoornima
Communicator

I used the search command as
source="task"|transaction task_action startswith=START endswith=Succeeded|Table_time task_action duration

90% of the result is coming correct ..
but for some case the result is not an exact difference

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Ayn
Legend

Have a look at the duration field which is created by the transaction command, it should be precisely what you need.

supersleepwalke
Communicator

You might check that your time extractions are correct. If Splunk's interpretation of each event's time is incorrect, that could lead to the duration field being incorrect.

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Ayn
Legend

Well, you need to check what is causing this problem - the functionality is there, so...

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splunkpoornima
Communicator

I used the duration also but since i got wrong results for some cases

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