Time
column, value and unit
Internally - Nebula uses a reserved time column __time__ to represent time point for every single record.
It uses unix time UTC time value in seconds.
Local friendly time in the future#
In the future, we will enable user to see converted local time on its UI.
Time are supported mostly by javascript built-in Date object.#
So all user input from web or other client will be converted by time.seconds method.
Various forms of time supported#
The time range start and end value can be any type of below format as long as it's valid
- milliseconds: unix time in UTC milliseconds
- string format: such as
2020-07-07or2020-07-07 13:12:11, milliseconds supported but will be rounded as Nebula supports time granularity at seconds level. - common literals, like:
- now: represents right now
- -{x}{u}: represents some time ago including minutes, hours, days and weeks. These examples are all valid:
- -3days: 3 days ago
- -15m: 15 minutes ago
- -2wk: 2 weeks ago
- -4h: 4 hours ago.
These units are supported right now as defined in code time.js:
- minute: S_MIN,
- minutes: S_MIN,
- min: S_MIN,
- mins: S_MIN,
- m: S_MIN,
- hour: S_HR,
- hours: S_HR,
- hr: S_HR,
- hrs: S_HR,
- h: S_HR,
- day: S_DAY,
- days: S_DAY,
- d: S_DAY,
- week: S_WEEK,
- weeks: S_WEEK,
- wk: S_WEEK,
- wks: S_WEEK,
- w: S_WEEK