diff --git a/src/sagemaker/analytics.py b/src/sagemaker/analytics.py
index 085f5d8375..d2a4fb78d2 100644
--- a/src/sagemaker/analytics.py
+++ b/src/sagemaker/analytics.py
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
     # Any subsequent attempt to use pandas will raise the ImportError
     pd = DeferredError(e)
 
+METRICS_PERIOD_DEFAULT = 60  # seconds
+
 
 class AnalyticsMetricsBase(with_metaclass(ABCMeta, object)):
     """Base class for tuning job or training job analytics classes.
@@ -201,7 +203,8 @@ class TrainingJobAnalytics(AnalyticsMetricsBase):
 
     CLOUDWATCH_NAMESPACE = '/aws/sagemaker/TrainingJobs'
 
-    def __init__(self, training_job_name, metric_names=None, sagemaker_session=None):
+    def __init__(self, training_job_name, metric_names=None, sagemaker_session=None,
+                 start_time=None, end_time=None, period=None):
         """Initialize a ``TrainingJobAnalytics`` instance.
 
         Args:
@@ -216,6 +219,10 @@ def __init__(self, training_job_name, metric_names=None, sagemaker_session=None)
         self._sage_client = sagemaker_session.sagemaker_client
         self._cloudwatch = sagemaker_session.boto_session.client('cloudwatch')
         self._training_job_name = training_job_name
+        self._start_time = start_time
+        self._end_time = end_time
+        self._period = period or METRICS_PERIOD_DEFAULT
+
         if metric_names:
             self._metric_names = metric_names
         else:
@@ -245,13 +252,15 @@ def _determine_timeinterval(self):
         covering the interval of the training job
         """
         description = self._sage_client.describe_training_job(TrainingJobName=self.name)
-        start_time = description[u'TrainingStartTime']  # datetime object
+        start_time = self._start_time or description[u'TrainingStartTime']  # datetime object
         # Incrementing end time by 1 min since CloudWatch drops seconds before finding the logs.
         # This results in logs being searched in the time range in which the correct log line was not present.
         # Example - Log time - 2018-10-22 08:25:55
         #           Here calculated end time would also be 2018-10-22 08:25:55 (without 1 min addition)
         #           CW will consider end time as 2018-10-22 08:25 and will not be able to search the correct log.
-        end_time = description.get(u'TrainingEndTime', datetime.datetime.utcnow()) + datetime.timedelta(minutes=1)
+        end_time = self._end_time or description.get(
+            u'TrainingEndTime', datetime.datetime.utcnow()) + datetime.timedelta(minutes=1)
+
         return {
             'start_time': start_time,
             'end_time': end_time,
@@ -276,7 +285,7 @@ def _fetch_metric(self, metric_name):
             ],
             'StartTime': self._time_interval['start_time'],
             'EndTime': self._time_interval['end_time'],
-            'Period': 60,
+            'Period': self._period,
             'Statistics': ['Average'],
         }
         raw_cwm_data = self._cloudwatch.get_metric_statistics(**request)['Datapoints']
diff --git a/tests/integ/test_tf_script_mode.py b/tests/integ/test_tf_script_mode.py
index 924dc3e308..32c99681f4 100644
--- a/tests/integ/test_tf_script_mode.py
+++ b/tests/integ/test_tf_script_mode.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ def test_mnist(sagemaker_session, instance_type):
                            sagemaker_session=sagemaker_session,
                            py_version='py3',
                            framework_version=TensorFlow.LATEST_VERSION,
+                           metric_definitions=[{'Name': 'train:global_steps', 'Regex': r'global_step\/sec:\s(.*)'}],
                            base_job_name='test-tf-sm-mnist')
     inputs = estimator.sagemaker_session.upload_data(
         path=os.path.join(RESOURCE_PATH, 'data'),
@@ -56,6 +57,9 @@ def test_mnist(sagemaker_session, instance_type):
         estimator.fit(inputs)
     _assert_s3_files_exist(estimator.model_dir,
                            ['graph.pbtxt', 'model.ckpt-0.index', 'model.ckpt-0.meta'])
+    df = estimator.training_job_analytics.dataframe()
+    print(df)
+    assert df.size > 0
 
 
 def test_server_side_encryption(sagemaker_session):
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_analytics.py b/tests/unit/test_analytics.py
index 05eab2089c..df432a9dd5 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_analytics.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_analytics.py
@@ -245,3 +245,20 @@ def test_trainer_dataframe():
     trainer.export_csv(tmp_name)
     assert os.path.isfile(tmp_name)
     os.unlink(tmp_name)
+
+
+def test_start_time_end_time_and_period_specified():
+    describe_training_result = {
+        'TrainingStartTime': datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 16, 1, 2, 3),
+        'TrainingEndTime': datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 16, 5, 6, 7),
+    }
+    session = create_sagemaker_session(describe_training_result)
+    start_time = datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 16, 1, 3, 4)
+    end_time = datetime.datetime(2018, 5, 16, 5, 1, 1)
+    period = 300
+    trainer = TrainingJobAnalytics('my-training-job', ['metric'],
+                                   sagemaker_session=session, start_time=start_time, end_time=end_time, period=period)
+
+    assert trainer._time_interval['start_time'] == start_time
+    assert trainer._time_interval['end_time'] == end_time
+    assert trainer._period == period