Transaction duration not working as expected

[dowdag]

| transaction CheckNumber startswith="Tender" endswith="PrintIntercept\:\:PrintXML finished" 
| top  CheckNumber TimeStamp duration Info   showcount=false showperc=false

I am getting back data but the duration column is 0, what did I miss?

[evania]

Hi @dowdag ,

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[niketn]

@dowdag have you tried the following? Also after the transaction command have you validated that the two expected events are getting actually correlated or not? Can you add some sample events for startswith and endswith condition (mock/anonymize any sensitive information)?

 <yourCurrentSearch>
 | transaction CheckNumber startswith="Tender" endswith="PrintIntercept\:\:PrintXML finished" 
 | sort 0 - duration
 | table CheckNumber TimeStamp duration Info   

Ideally you should try using stats for this kind of correlation which should work faster

 <yourCurrentSearch> CheckNumber=* ("Tender" OR "PrintIntercept::PrintXML finished")
 | eval EventType=case(searchmatch("Tender"),"start",searchmatch("PrintIntercept::PrintXML finished"),"finish")
 | stats values(EventType) as EventType min(_time) as _time max(_time) as LatestTime values(Info) as Info by CheckNumber
 | search EventType="Tender" AND EventType="PrintIntercept::PrintXML finished" 
 | eval duration=LatestTime-_time
 | fields - LatestTime
 | sort 0 - duration
 | table CheckNumber _time duration Info