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What do the start time and the stop time of a SignalFlow job mean?

Z_Jacob
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Don't know why there is not a location for "SignalFx" related questions.

According to SignalFlow API doc: https://dev.splunk.com/observability/reference/api/signalflow/latest#endpoint-start-signalflow-compu... there is a "start" parameter and a "stop" parameter. And I'm totally confused by the explanation:

"The date and time that the computation should start/stop, in *nix time"

Let's say current time is "2021-09-22 20:27:00" (America/Los_Angeles)

What if I chose a time range in the past:

  1. what will happen if the start time equals the stop time? Am I supposed to get nothing cause the computation stops immediately? And How to understand it that the computation should start/stop yesterday?
    • start:  2021-09-21 00:00:00
    • stop:  2021-09-21 00:00:00
  2. what will happen if the stop time is greater than the start time?  Am I supposed to wait for 2 hours for a computation start/stop yesterday?
    • start:  2021-09-21 00:00:00
    • stop:  2021-09-22 02:00:00

And what if I chose a time range in the future?

  1. what will happen if the start time equals the stop time? Am I supposed to get nothing cause the computation stops immediately? And am I supposed to wait until "2021-09-23 00:00:00" for the computation to start?
    • start:  2021-09-23 00:00:00
    • stop:  2021-09-23 00:00:00
  2. what will happen if the stop time is greater than the start time?  Am I supposed to wait for 2 hours for a computation start/stop in the future?
    • start:  2021-09-23 00:00:00
    • stop:  2021-09-23 02:00:00
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