Date and time (Historical data)

Specifying a date and time to send data to is optional. By doing so, you can store historical data, create more sophisticated graphs, and analyze trends right away.

Event data that is sent to Databox typically doesn’t need a ‘date’ property, since the event triggered the send at the appropriate time. Therefore, by default the timestamp is accurate.

However, when sending data for events in the past or even in future, the date property allows you to store data to a specific point in time.

curl https://push.databox.com \
-u 2cdt4yoytbvockc51cowgs4gsss84ow4s: \
-X POST \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.databox.v2+json' \
-d '{
  "data":[
    {
      "$sales": 83000,
      "date": "2018-01-19"
    },
    {
      "$sales": 4000,
      "date": "2018-01-20 16:07:37-06:00"
    }
  ]
}'

use Databox\Client;

$c = new Client('2cdt4yoytbvockc51cowgs4gsss84ow4s');

$c->insertAll([
    ['sales', 83000, '2018-01-19'],
    ['sales', 4000, '2018-01-20 16:07:37-06:00'],
]);

var Databox = require('databox');

var client = new Databox({
    push_token: '2cdt4yoytbvockc51cowgs4gsss84ow4s'
});

client.insertAll([
  {
    key: 'sales',
    value: 83000,
    date: '2018-01-19'
  },
  {
    key: 'sales',
    value: 4000,
    date: '2018-01-20 16:07:37-06:00'
  }
]);

Databox.configure do |c|
  c.push_token = '2cdt4yoytbvockc51cowgs4gsss84ow4s'
end

client = Databox::Client.new

client.insert_all [
    {key: 'sales', value: 83000, date: '2018-01-19'},
    {key: 'sales', value: 4000, date: '2018-01-20 16:07:37-06:00'}
]

String TOKEN = "2cdt4yoytbvockc51cowgs4gsss84ow4s";
Databox databox = new Databox(TOKEN);
try {
    List<Databox.KPI> kpis = new ArrayList<Databox.KPI>();
    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", Locale.getDefault());
    kpis.add(new Databox.KPI().setKey("sales").setValue(83000).setDate(sdf.parse("2018-01-19")));
    kpis.add(new Databox.KPI().setKey("sales").setValue(4000).setDate(sdf.parse("2018-01-20 16:07:37-06:00")));
    databox.push(kpis);
} catch (Exception e) {
    System.err.println(e.getLocalizedMessage());
}

package main

import (
    databox "github.com/databox/databox-go"
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    client := databox.NewClient("2cdt4yoytbvockc51cowgs4gsss84ow4s")

    if _, error := client.Push(&databox.KPI{
        Key:    "sales",
        Value:  83000,
        Date:   "2018-01-19",
    }); error != nil {
        fmt.Println("Inserted.")
    }
}

from databox import Client

client = Client('2cdt4yoytbvockc51cowgs4gsss84ow4s')
client.insert_all([
    {'key': 'sales', 'value': 83000, 'date': '2018-01-19'},
    {'key': 'sales', 'value': 4000, 'date': '2018-01-20 16:07:37-06:00'},
])

Dates format like ‘YYYY-MM-DD’ (i.e. 2018-01-19) will translate to 2018-01-19 00:00:00 UTC. If you omit the date parameter, the current date and time (in UTC) will be used by default. To avoid discrepancies in your data, you should double-check that all of your data has a timezone specified, or is in UTC. Learn more about time zones