How do you use the latency_offset query arg?

[OmegaZero]

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How do you use the latency_offset query arg? For instance I want to change it for a particular query to only be 5 seconds but if I do

windows_cpu_time_total{latency_offset="5s"}

it returns no data. Forgive my ignorance on how this works! :) Thanks!

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• [ ] General - https://docs.victoriametrics.com/Troubleshooting.html
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[f41gh7]

This param can be used via http request query arg:

curl localhost:8428/api/v1/query -g -d 'latency_offset=5s' -d 'query=windows_cpu_time_total'

[OmegaZero]

But can it be used inside the query (like I had mentioned before?). Specifically, how can I use it from Grafana? Also how can I use it in vmui?

[Amper]

@OmegaZero, no, it cannot be passed as part of MetricsQL query

[jiekun]

Closed as answered.