Does initial interval work on start up for google workspace module?

[YuWatanabe]

Hello.

I would like to ask question for google workspace module .

Doc says , filebeat will poll up to var.initial_interval when the filebeat starts.

It will poll events up to this time period when the module starts.

However, I have used fresh docker image and started up but only polled up to var.interval .

I have looked at the code and it seems that var.initial_interval is used as default which is only used when value is empty or the template parsing fails . Which I understood as var.initial_interval is not used unless something is wrong with value .

Should I go with the doc or should I trust the code ?

Thanks ,
Yu

[legoguy1000 (Alex)]

So the code shows that since the.cursor.* is empty when the coffee first runs it does use the initial interval to poll. Then the cursor is updated and is used for subsequent API calls.

[YuWatanabe]

@legoguy1000
Thank you for the reply. Yeah your right. I was wrong.
Just tested again with DEBUG level log and confirmed that var.initial_interval is used.

2022-03-30T10:04:22.580Z        DEBUG   [input.httpjson-cursor.retryablehttp]   go-retryablehttp@v0.6.6/client.go:504   performing request%!(EXTRA string=method, string=GET, string=url, *url.URL=https://www.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/drive?startTime=2022-03-26T10%3A04%3A22Z)        {"id": "BBFA557C8D443451", "input_source": "https://www.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/drive", "input_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/admin/reports/v1/activity/users/all/applications/drive"}