presenting logs in reverse order

[a212830]

hI,

The default mode for Splunk is to show the most recent activity first. How can I show the logs from, say midnight to now, rather than now to midnight.

[somesoni2 · Accepted solution]

There is no setting to changes the Splunk's default chronological order of showing events (most recent to oldest). You can use "reverse" command to show events in opposite order.

See this
http://answers.splunk.com/answers/1691/how-to-reverse-the-order-of-displayed-events

[somesoni2]

The only problem with sort is that it doesn't handle events with same timestamp well like reverse does. Otherwise if there won't be events with same timestamp or you don't care about the order in that case, sort _time can be used.

[agodoy]

I have found that the reverse command gives unexpected results, specially when there are a lot of events returned. Therefore, I use the sort command on the _time field.

<your search> | sort +_time

[Jeff_Lightly_Sp]

Using REVERSE may do the job for you:

| reverse