If you would just like to make a timechart, then the timechart command should fit your need better than the sitimechart command. The sitimechart is intended for preparing the data to insert into a summary index so that later on it can be timecharted from the summary index. Using just timechart:   <your search> | timechart span=1d avg(errorPercentage) as errorPercentage by Process   If you would like to gather data now into a summary index to produce a timechart very quickly in a later search, you can use sitimechart:   <your search> | sitimechart span=1d avg(errorPercentage) as errorPercentage by Process | collect index=yoursummaryindex   Then in a later search:   index = yoursummaryindex <some filter, e.g. for Process=*> | timechart span=1d avg(errorPercentage) as errorPercentage by Process   The docs page describes the sitimechart usage, but does not explain the meaning of the created fields: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.2.0/SearchReference/Sitimechart ... View more