gentimes

Description

The gentimes command is useful in conjunction with the map command.

Generates timestamp results starting with the exact time specified as start time. Each result describes an adjacent, non-overlapping time range as indicated by the increment value. This terminates when enough results are generated to pass the endtime value.

This command does not work for future dates.

Syntax

| gentimes start=<timestamp> [end=<timestamp>] [increment=<increment>]

Required arguments

start

Syntax: start=<timestamp>

Description: Specify as start time.

<timestamp>

Syntax: MM/DD/YYYY[:HH:MM:SS] | <int>

Description: Indicate the timeframe, for example: 10/1/2017 for October 1, 2017, 4/1/2017:12:34:56 for April 1, 2017 at 12:34:56, or -5 for five days ago.

Optional arguments

end

Syntax: end=<timestamp>

Description: Specify an end time.

Default: midnight, prior to the current time in local time

increment

Syntax: increment=<int>(s | m | h | d)

Description: Specify a time period to increment from the start time to the end time. Supported increments are seconds, minutes, hours, and days.

Default: 1d

Usage

The gentimes command is an event-generating command. See Command types.

Generating commands use a leading pipe character and should be the first command in a search.

The gentimes command returns four fields.

Field	Description
starttime	The starting time range in UNIX time.
starthuman	The human readable time range in the format DDD MMM DD HH:MM:SS YYYY. For example Sun Apr 1 00:00:00 2018.
endtime	The ending time range in UNIX time.
endhuman	The human readable time range in the format DDD MMM DD HH:MM:SS YYYY. For example Fri Apr 13 23:59:59 2018.

Examples

1. Generate daily time ranges by specifying dates

Generates daily time ranges from April 1 to April 5 in 2018. This search generates four intervals covering one day periods aligning with the calendar days April 1, 2, 3, and 4, during 2018.

| gentimes start=4/1/18 end=4/5/18

The results appear on the Statistics tab and look something like this:

starttime	starthuman	endtime	endhuman
1522566000	Sun Apr 1 00:00:00 2018	1522652399	Sun Apr 1 23:59:59 2018
1522652400	Mon Apr 2 00:00:00 2018	1522738799	Mon Apr 2 23:59:59 2018
1522738800	Tue Apr 3 00:00:00 2018	1522825199	Tue Apr 3 23:59:59 2018
1522825200	Wed Apr 4 00:00:00 2018	1522911599	Wed Apr 4 23:59:59 2018

2. Generate daily time ranges by specifying relative times

Generate daily time ranges from 30 days ago until 27 days ago.

| gentimes start=-30 end=-27

3. Generate hourly time ranges

Generate hourly time ranges from December 1 to December 5 in 2017.

| gentimes start=12/1/17 end=12/5/17 increment=1h

4. Generate time ranges by only specifying a start date

Generate daily time ranges from September 25 to today.

| gentimes start=9/25/17

5. Generate weekly time ranges

Although the week increment is not supported, you can generate a weekly increment by specifying increment=7d.

This examples generates weekly time ranges from December 1, 2017 to April 30, 2018.

| gentimes start=12/1/17 end=4/30/18 increment=7d

See also

makeresults, map