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how to calculate the starttime and endtime between duration ?

babukumarreddy
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actually iam new to splunk

in my logs starttime and endtime is there need to calculate duration
starttime endtime
|01-feb-2019 01:30:18|01-feb-2019 01:30:28

fieldnames are starttime and endtime

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chrisyounger
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Try this: |eval d1 = strptime(starttime, "%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S") | eval d2 = strptime(endtime, "%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S") | eval duration_in_seconds = d1 - d2

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chrisyounger
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Try this: |eval d1 = strptime(starttime, "%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S") | eval d2 = strptime(endtime, "%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%S") | eval duration_in_seconds = d1 - d2

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babukumarreddy
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Hi Chrisyongerjds

its not working

index="starttime"|eval d1 = strptime(starttime, "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S") | eval d2 = strptime(endtime, "%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S") | eval duration_in_seconds = d1 - d2|table starttime endtime duration_in_seconds

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babukumarreddy
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ignore above comment
it's working

thank you Chrisyongerjds

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