diff --git a/lib/Thruk/Controller/Rest/V1/outages.pm b/lib/Thruk/Controller/Rest/V1/outages.pm
index 06f0e2f9c..4a2df6bc2 100644
--- a/lib/Thruk/Controller/Rest/V1/outages.pm
+++ b/lib/Thruk/Controller/Rest/V1/outages.pm
@@ -426,6 +426,10 @@ sub _rest_query_time_filter {
         }
     }
 
+    if($c->req->parameters->{'start'} && !$c->req->parameters->{'end'}) {
+        $c->req->parameters->{'end'} = time();
+    }
+
     # combine remaining filter again
     $c->req->parameters->{'q'} = Thruk::Utils::Status::filter2text($c, undef, $filter);
 
@@ -487,7 +491,11 @@ sub _rest_replace_logs_time_filter {
 
     if($start) {
         $c->req->parameters->{'start'} = $start;
-        $c->req->parameters->{'end'}   = $end // time();
+    }
+    if($end) {
+        $c->req->parameters->{'end'}   = $end;
+    }
+    if($start || $end) {
         return 1;
     }
 }
diff --git a/lib/Thruk/Controller/rest_v1.pm b/lib/Thruk/Controller/rest_v1.pm
index 0ba9d59a1..52e562019 100644
--- a/lib/Thruk/Controller/rest_v1.pm
+++ b/lib/Thruk/Controller/rest_v1.pm
@@ -2632,7 +2632,7 @@ sub _match_complex_filter {
                 for my $op (%{$val}) {
                     my $localkey = $key;
                     if(!defined $data->{$localkey}) {
-                        # translate some keys back
+                        # translate some keys back (set from Utils::Status::parse_lexical_filter)
                         if($localkey eq 'host_name' && defined $data->{'host'}) {
                             $localkey = 'host';
                         } elsif($localkey eq 'description' && defined $data->{'service'}) {
diff --git a/t/scenarios/rest_api/t/301-controller_rest_scenario.t b/t/scenarios/rest_api/t/301-controller_rest_scenario.t
index 8ca94317f..95eb5fe02 100644
--- a/t/scenarios/rest_api/t/301-controller_rest_scenario.t
+++ b/t/scenarios/rest_api/t/301-controller_rest_scenario.t
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use Test::More;
 die("*** ERROR: this test is meant to be run with PLACK_TEST_EXTERNALSERVER_URI set,\nex.: THRUK_TEST_AUTH=omdadmin:omd PLACK_TEST_EXTERNALSERVER_URI=http://localhost:60080/demo perl t/scenarios/rest_api/t/301-controller_rest_scenario.t") unless defined $ENV{'PLACK_TEST_EXTERNALSERVER_URI'};
 
 BEGIN {
-    plan tests => 370;
+    plan tests => 378;
 
     use lib('t');
     require TestUtils;
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ my $pages = [{
     }, {
         url          => '/logs?q=***type = "EXTERNAL COMMAND" and time > '.(time() - 600).'***',
         like         => ['EXTERNAL COMMAND'],
+    }, {
+        url          => '/services/outages?q=***host = "localhost" and service = "Ping" and timeperiod = "today"***',
+        like         => ['\[\]'],
     }, {
         url          => '/services/localhost/Ping/config',
         method       => 'PATCH',