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Time for data capture

123omo
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I want to know the length of time it takes to capture specific data.
Is there any way?

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Ayn
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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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