Splunk Search

How to display the search time range and description in a PDF report?

thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi,
As I am generating PDF reports, I want the description and the time range used for the search that generated the data to display on the PDF. How do I do this?

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somesoni2
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can add a single value panel as mentioned below to get the search timeline.

<dashboard>
  <label>ShowSearchDate</label>
  <description/>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <single>
        <searchString>|gentimes start=-1 | addinfo | convert ctime(*) | eval reportDate=info_min_time." to ".info_max_time | table reportDate</searchString>
        <earliestTime>-60m@m</earliestTime>
        <latestTime>now</latestTime>
        <option name="drilldown">none</option>
        <option name="beforeLabel">Report Date:</option>
        <option name="linkView">search</option>
        <option name="afterLabel">.</option>
      </single>
    </panel>
  </row>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <chart>
        <title>Internal Sourcetype Distribution Report</title>
        <searchString>index=_internal | stats count by sourcetype</searchString>
        <earliestTime>-60m@m</earliestTime>
        <latestTime>now</latestTime>
      </chart>
    </panel>
  </row>
</dashboard>

thambisetty_bal
Path Finder

The above is mentioned for dashboard , what if I want to print time range in report.

TonyLeeVT
Builder

Agreed. A solution for a report would be ideal.

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dharshini
Explorer

Can anyone help mention the solution? Like how to display the time-range for which the search was run on a PDF report.
Thanks.

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ateterine
Path Finder

I have the same question, @ppablo_splunk, @thambisetty, do you guys have an answer to this?
Thanks!

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ppablo
Retired

Hey @ateterine

Unfortunately I don't know how to do this, but I edited the title and clarified the content so hopefully some PDF reporting experts will be more inclined to chime in 🙂

Patrick

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thambisetty
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I want to display the time range used for the search that generated the data and description also on the PDF

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If this helps, give a like below.
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ppablo
Retired

Hi @thambisetty

Do you want to display the time range used for the search that generated the data on the PDF? or the time it took to actually generate the PDF itself?

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