Getting Data In

Filtering a Search

heats
Explorer

Hi there, so I had a nice search return but I have a few bits that I don't want in the search. Really all I care about are the HTTP responses of 200 and I don't want to see anything with "WhatsUp/1.0" because that's just noise. Is there a good piece of documentation on this?

Trying to figure out what kind of web traffic is on a really old server that needs to be retired. Also, is there good documentation on this type of practice?

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somesoni2
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You can remove events from search results by specifying filters, preferably in base search like this

index=foo sourcetype=bar http_status=200 NOT ("WhatsUp/1.0")

You can refer to Splunk search tutorial for more examples.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.1/SearchTutorial/Usethesearchlanguage

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

You can remove events from search results by specifying filters, preferably in base search like this

index=foo sourcetype=bar http_status=200 NOT ("WhatsUp/1.0")

You can refer to Splunk search tutorial for more examples.
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/6.6.1/SearchTutorial/Usethesearchlanguage

heats
Explorer

Do you have to specify the source type?

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somesoni2
Revered Legend

Specifying more metadata field filters (index/host/source/sourcetype etc) in base search can optimize the performance.

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heats
Explorer

Oh I see, it looks like status= not http_status This looks good! Thank you for the documentation!

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