Splunk Search

Time for data capture

123omo
Observer

I want to know the length of time it takes to capture specific data.
Is there any way?

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Ayn
Legend

Assuming you're picking up events directly when they're generated and that they have valid timestamps that Splunk identifies and uses, you can check the difference between when events were generated (_time) and when they were actually indexed (_indextime).

... | eval timediff=_indextime-_time
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