search time

noun

Refers to the period of time from when a search is launched to the point where it completes. During search time, certain kinds of event processing take place, such as search time field extraction, field aliasing, source type renaming, event type matching, and so on.

For more information

In the Admin Manual:

configuration

configuration file

event processing

character set encoding

segmentation

segment

timestamping

timestamp, timezone offset

default field extraction

host, source, source type, punct


archiving

retention time