Add "move time forward" and " move time backward" buttons when performing an absolute search

[drewmiranda-gl]

What?

Add 2 buttons on the graylog search page (or wheverever search bar exists, e.g. Dashboards):

• Move time forward
• Move time backward

Example mockup:

Why?

When digging deep into logs, it is common to need to shift the time range selection of the search result. For example, viewing data in chunks 1 hour at a time. If you don't see what you are looking for you can step backwards/forwards in the interval difference of End-Start.

Grafana implements this:

This would be a large quality of life improvement and could help to deal with pagination issues we have currently due to max scroll size.

[kmerz]

I can imagine doing this for relative searches as well like 5 Minutes which will convert to absolute time range, once you hit the previous button.

[Emy-01]

@kmerz @drewmiranda-gl I like the idea. We can consider this for the DW search too. @linuspahl how big would the effort be for this?

[linuspahl]

@Emy Do you mean the effort to reuse this feature on the DW search or the effort to implement this feature in general?

[emy]

@linuspahl Hi, I think you pinged the wrong Emy. ;)

CC: @Emy-01

[Emy-01]

@linuspahl I meant the feature in general

[linuspahl]

Thanks and sorry @Emy!

[linuspahl]

@Emy-01 It is not something that we can implement in half an hour, but it won't take multiple days.