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extracted date as x-axis range

athorat
Communicator

got a date extracted from a file name and got the count of files received on for that extracted date.

date-2016-03-28 extracted from the files received at a specific location.

 /ubidata/axway/JourneyData/AAA_NA_70_2016-03-28-00-47-08_353466071286872_1HGCR2F5XDA159398_0_0.zip

Now we want a time chart to show the count of extracted date(2016-03-28) on that date.
The default timechart shows values by system time. Want to use the extracted date as the xaxis date and showing the timechart trend for those counts.

Thanks.

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Jeremiah
Motivator

Convert your date to an epoch timestamp, and eval it to _time:

... | eval _time = strptime(file_date, "%F") | timechart dc(source)

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athorat
Communicator

Hi @Jeremiah

Thanks for the update, we see an notification under the job tab :
Some events were removed by Timeliner because they were missing _time[p01apl385.ent.com] Some events were removed by Timeliner because they were missing _time

is there something which needs to be modified.

Thanks.

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Your regex to create file_date is probably buggy. Try this to find broken events and enhance your field extraction:

... | where isnull(file_date)
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