https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-do-we-find-the-time-difference-between-contents-of-a/m-p/282733#M210167 <P>Thanks for the response Matt.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I recieve a continuous stream from one of the machines.&nbsp;</P><P>Let's say the timestamp of 1 flowfile is 10 am&nbsp;</P><P>And the next is 10 02 am, 10 05 am etc..&nbsp;</P><P>I am merging 20 such records using the merge content processor and getting a json response as a single flow file.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Now I need to write a loop to check for the number of records and compare the timestamps vs the previous timestamp and calculate it took 2 mins for first iteration. .. ur. 10 to 10 02. Then 3 mins for next. Etc.&nbsp;</P><P>The idea is to calculate cycle time between the first flow file and the next flow file content. Since only one flow file is generated I have to merge contents of the flow file before this.&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Let me know if there is a better way to handle this scenario.&nbsp;</P> Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:43:25 GMT Raghu_daredev 2019-11-12T13:43:25Z