Display last 8 hours from now () ..?

[harishalipaka]

Hi Splunkers,

i want to display the last 8 hours of data with 1 hour different without any index or kv table .like makeresults or gentimes
Eg:- suppose now time is "2018-09-14 13:31:42" `

|makeresults |eval current=now() | timechart span=1h count as duration.

i want to display like below

time
13:30
12:30
11:30
10:30
09:30
08:30
07:30
06:30

ThanQ in advance 😞

[niketn]

@harishalipaka, try the following run anywhere example based on Splunk's _internal index

index=_internal sourcetype=splunkd log_level=ERROR
| timechart span=1h count as Error 
| append
    [| makeresults 
    | addinfo 
    | eval Time=info_max_time.",".info_min_time 
    | fields Time 
    | makemv Time delim="," 
    | mvexpand Time 
    | rename Time as _time 
    | timechart span=1h count(somefieldthatdoesnotexist) as Error] 
| dedup _time

The sub-query inside append creates dummy rows for each hour provided the Time Range selected for query is Last 8 hours i.e. earliest=-8h and latest=now. Final dedup returns non-zero counts returned by main search if they are present or else displays the 0 count from second search for last 8 hours.

You can test the second condition by changing base search from log_level=ERROR to log_level=ERROR1 which does not exist. Instead of showing No results Found it will show 0 count for last 8 hours.

Please try out and confirm!

[somesoni2]

Try like this

| gentimes start=-1 | eval time=mvrange(relative_time(now(),"-8h"), now(),1800) | table time | mvexpand time | rename time as _time | timechart span=30m count

OR

| makeresults | eval time=mvrange(relative_time(now(),"-8h"), now(),1800) | table time | mvexpand time | rename time as _time | timechart span=30m count

[renjith_nair]

@harishalipaka,

Does it work for you?

| makeresults count=8|eval diff=1|accum diff as diff|eval diff=(diff-1)*3600
|eval _time=strftime(_time-diff,"%H:%M")|fields - diff

[niketn]

@harishalipaka do u wnt to use this in search or dashboard?
Also what is the logic for picking 30 min instead of 31 if the current time is 31 minute?